Also, there's a lot of talk about the gender gap with regard to who mostly works for and earns the money, but not so much with who mostly SPENDS the money (hint: it's not men).  It blows my mind that this situation -- men working and earning, women spending -- is painted as a bad deal for women, and people buy it.  I generally despise the unsupported disparaging of the media for "fake news," but its reporting of the so-called wage gap definitely qualifies as spin.