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Media? Handouts from any organization or agency, including government, that come with a social-engineering agenda is the last thing media needs. The same for public office. Women are free to run for public office and raise money for their campaigns. Elizabeth Warren didn’t need Melinda’s money to become a Democrat front-runner. It will be the fault of her platform, not her gender, if she fails.

I believe Melinda is suffering from the same blinkered gender vision that emerged in Hillary’s El Salvador address. She can only see male privilege and female inequality. She is oblivious to the 99.9 per cent of men who aren’t rich and famous, and who enjoy no discernible privilege as they struggle to negotiate the exigencies of everyday life.

Melinda needs to take a look at a dramatically eye-opening document, titled “For every 100 girls/Women …” This is a list created in 2011 by Tom Mortenson, senior scholar at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education in Washington, D.C., and updated to 2019 by researcher Mark J. Perry of the American Enterprise Institute. The chart reveals surprising data-based gender gaps in the general population that illuminate the absurdly narrow metrics governing Melinda’s “power and influence” vision.

For every 100 women aged 20-29 who commit suicide, there are 450 men

The chart shows, for example, that: For every 100 women enrolled in U.S. graduate schools, there are 73 men; for every 100 women who earn a doctor’s degree, there are 90 men; for every 100 girls who repeat kindergarten, there are 145 boys; for every 100 women who die by opioid overdose, there are 212 men; for every 100 women who are homeless and unsheltered, there are 242 men; for every 100 women aged 20-29 who commit suicide, there are 450 men. For every 100 women who die on the job, there are 1,294 men.