Though it is from a variety of reasons, no matter how you slice it, women earn less than men. Here is one example of a source. http://www.mtsu.edu/~berc/tnbiz/women/pdfs/wages.pdf There are many more.

I'm not sure who I want to win the democratic primary of the eligible candidates yet. I would love to see Dennis Kucinich win, I voted for him in the 2004 primary, but as that won't happen I'll have to wait and see. All I'm sure of is that I would almost certainly vote for any democrat before I'd ever vote for a republican.