"Rachel Maddow Clashes With Alex Castellanos Over Women And The Economy On 'Meet The Press' (VIDEO)"

 Alex Casellanos is really scary in this clip, but Rachel Maddow is brilliant - definitely worth watching!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/30/rachel-maddow-alex-castellanos-meet-the-press-women-economy_n_1464039.html

Checking Rachel's facts:
 - The National Committee on Pay Equity states on it's website that:
"The wage gap remained statistically unchanged in the last year. Women's earnings were 77.4 percent of men's in 2010, compared to 77.0 percent in 2009, according to Census statistics released September 13, 2011 based on the median earnings of all full-time, year-round workers."http://www.pay-equity.org/

- A TIME magazine article from April 20120 explains: 
"Once you control for factors like education and experience, notes Francine Blau — who, along with fellow Cornell economist Lawrence Kahn, published a study on the 1998 wage gap — women's earnings rise to 81% of men's. Factor in occupation, industry and whether they belong to a union, and they jump to 91%. That's partly because women tend to cluster in lower-paying fields. The most-educated swath of women, for example, gravitates toward the teaching and nursing fields. Men with comparable education become business executives, scientists, doctors and lawyers — jobs that pay significantly more.  
Still, workers don't choose their industry in a vacuum. "Why do you think [male-dominated industries] are sex-segregated?" says Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women. "Very often women aren't welcome there." Real or perceived, discrimination in certain sectors could discourage women from seeking employment there. A dearth of role models might, in turn, influence the next generation of girls to gravitate toward lower-paying fields, creating an unfortunate cycle.
But industry doesn't tell the whole story. Women earned less than men in all 20 industries and 25 occupation groups surveyed by the Census Bureau in 2007 — even in fields in which their numbers are overwhelming. Female secretaries, for instance, earn just 83.4% as much as male ones. And those who pick male-dominated fields earn less than men too: female truck drivers, for instance, earn just 76.5% of the weekly pay of their male counterparts."http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1983185,00.html

- Catalyst* analyzes median weekly earnings, education levels, the wage gap broken down by age, marriage economics, women's earnings as a percent of men's by industry.... very thorough and strongly conclusive - women still make less than man anyway you look at it!
*"Founded in 1962, Catalyst is the leading nonprofit membership organization expanding opportunities for women and business."http://www.catalyst.org/publication/217/womens-earnings-and-income

Looks like Mr. Castellanos needs to do a little more research...