It is doing this, in theory, to end what it calls discrimination, although it comes about through the free decisions of everyone involved. To end differences and real diversity, it is applying discriminatory policies. Discriminating in the name of equality is another of our socialists Orwellian distortions.

 

Beyond the numbers that might suggest a world of discrimination for women, it is important to observe people’s real-life decisions and behavior. For example, marriage and children have an impact on people’s professional lives that is very different if you’re a woman or a man. While men work more hours after getting married or having a child, the exact opposite thing happens with women. They prefer to dedicate more time to the home. Women’s professional experience has more interruptions than men’s, usually coinciding with their children’s first few years of life. This administration can look down on the decisions real Spaniards make and try to change them by law, but, logically, people resist and tend to do what they consider to be in their best interests.

 

For example, in preparation for the time when they decide to leave the professional world, either completely or partially, women choose careers where a prolonged absence is less damaging to productivity than men do. They usually avoid jobs that require specific and up to date training or on-going dedication, handing these professions over to men. And among those women that do choose these kinds of jobs, there are few who are married or have children. Many of these jobs pay above average. Back in 1971 (before positive discrimination), Thomas Sowell observed salary differences between single, childless men and women who had been in their careers since at least the age of 25, practically disappeared.  

 

What this administration considers discrimination is nothing more than our lives, how we want to live them and what we choose –at least while the government lets us. But this law is something more than Zapatero’s latest attempt to shape our society into what he feels it should look like. For example, the anti-tobacco law outlaws habitual behaviors, something that should be left to each individual to decide. He is giving the government huge powers to control society. In the case of the Equality Law, when someone makes an allegation, the accused will be considered guilty until proven innocent. Another Orwellian distortion: turning everyone into potential criminals in the name of justice.