In TheCollegeConservative, student Mitch Hall takes a look at the supposed “Gender Pay Gap.”

He asserts it is one of many instances of a concept used to promote entitlements, instead of real equality.

This year’s Equal Pay Day witnessed the renewal of attacks from the left on conservatives, as well as a media campaign to ensure equal pay for women. Along with this campaign came new studies from feminist organizations, such as this one from the American Association of University Women (AAUW), which suggests women receive 82 cents for every dollar their male colleagues make. This particular study, entitled “Graduating to a Pay Gap,” dramatically misleads readers in a clear attempt to make women feel victimized rather than informed.

If a young female voter actually read the AAUW’s study, she would recognize that many different factors contribute to the wage gap among college graduates, least of all workplace discrimination. As the study admits, different college majors lead to very different earnings. For example, men comprise about 80% of engineering and computer science majors, high-paying jobs in high demand, while women dominate lower-paying fields like Education and Health Sciences. Surely we can all agree it’s fair that a female anthropology major who works in a museum her first year out of college will make less than a male computer science major who works for a computer software company.

…The left continuously uses the terms “equality” and “fairness” to disguise their entitlement agenda. The wage gap myth espoused by the Obama administration wrongly convinces women that they’re being paid less for doing the same jobs–they’re being deprived of an equal salary that they are inherently entitled to. Similar themes are evident in the effort to increase the minimum wage and in the issue of “income inequality.” According to them, if you’re working an entry-level position earning the minimum wage, that just isn’t fair, and your employers are needlessly preventing you from making the higher wages you are entitled to. As long as you’re a hard working American, even if you’re a college dropout in a working-class occupation, you’re also entitled to an income more like that of your Middle Class neighbors in the next town over. Last time I checked, however, a job title does not determine a salary, raising the minimum wage would force employers to cut jobs, and total income equality is known as communism.

Hopefully young female voters will look beyond the headlines and recognize the lies of the left. Women should refuse to be used as political pawns in the upcoming midterm elections, because believing in the entitlement culture of the left will lead to results that further corruption and harm the economy, rather than resolve any gender discrimination that exists in the workplace.