I often get asked the same question in interviews — “Why did you become an author?” If the question is asked in a print or radio interview, I trot out the same canned response like a well-trained pony.
But if the question is asked in a TV interview…I am in trouble.
I am in trouble because anyone with two eyes can see when I am lying.
So here’s the truth. I became an author because of the wage gap.
No, it wasn’t because I was paid less than the men in my advertising agency. Wage discrimination is not the smoking gun feminists continue to arm themselves with.