I suspect she doesn't live in Buffalo. Or Utica, Bavaria, Troy, Syracuse ... etc. On the planet I live on, the great bulk of New York is an extension of Ohio and Pennsylvania. Economically, the fact that New York City shares the same name as the rest of the state is an irrelevant coincidence.

You're discussing serious economic issues to women and you diminish its importance with this inane and disrespectful headline?

To some of us out here in the world according to average WOMEN, economic facts of life are pretty damned serious. The least you (Salon Broadsheet eds.) could do is treat this as such and not like some minor triviality along the lines of "Sex and the City" stupidity.

My understanding was that in larger cities, such as New York, women out-earn their male counterparts. In New York City, the the gap is 17% in women's favor.

(Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/nyregion/03women.html?ex=1344139200&en=d88a0c424c2d8f73&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink)

In rural and suburban New York, the reasons for wage gaps must be more complex than what Scherer presents.

I think that your article fails to possess any true understanding of the actual situation in New York state through your use of fictional Manhattan characters as examples and language that suggests that you do not perceive that there is a New York state beyond New York City.

Your article fails to include any substantial analysis of the report, instead relying on cheap pop culture references. Yes of course the television Manhattan residents are not real; the hyperbole of their wealth is enough to make that clear. New York state is not solely the Upper East Side of Manhattan and you have only continued that stereotype through a failure to discern the difference.

It shows that you clearly have no idea what is going on in New York at all and have opted to write a flippant piece rather than bothering to do any research whatsoever into what might be causing the trend. It is incredibly shoddy journalism, especially from this fairly professional blog.

And when will it end? This oppression of women, especially urban, college-educated white victimized women (not ladies!!!!) MUST END!

Stand tall, sisters! The REVOLUTION is NIGH!

Shhhh....Salonbots aren't supposed to talk about that. Illegal immigration is not only good, it's a right.

They come here (to NC or anywhere else) because we go there. First World exploitation of the Third World creates the conditions that force people into the immigrant stream. Make trade fair, drop the debt, and stop blaming the victims.