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The Biggest Myth About the Gender Wage Gap

“It might be the most famous statistic about female workers in the United States: Women earn ‘only 72 percent as much as their male counterparts.’ It’s also famously false.” Continue reading

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The gender wage gap: Do women get paid less for equal work?

“If the differences in the average amount women and men are paid cannot be fully explained by discrimination against women, what causes the gap to persist?” Continue reading

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Lessons from a Feminist Paradise on Equal Pay Day

Is Sweden a feminist paradise? Continue reading

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The Pay Gap Is Not as Bad as You (and Sheryl Sandberg) Think

“…[A]bsent all explanatory variables, even including a graduate’s GPA and how selective their school was and how long they were unemployed after graduation, the women made 93% of what the men were making. In other words, 93 cents to the man’s dollar. Not 77 cents. Not 81 cents. Ninety-three cents.” Continue reading

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The Real Story in the AAUW’s Wage-Gap Study

“From this heading, it’s clear that they want the media and readers to assume that the study found that two recent graduates—who sat next to each other during college, completing the same coursework, earning the same GPA and major, who then moved to the same city and were hired by the same firm for the same position—typically receive radically different compensation packages based on their sex, with the female grad receiving just 82 percent of her male colleague’s salary.” Continue reading

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Wage Gap Myth Exposed — By Feminists

“It will not be not easy for the AAUW and its allies to abandon the idea of systemic gender injustice. AAUW officials are trying mightily to sustain the bad-news-for-women narrative.” Continue reading

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Weaponizing the well-being of women

Obama playing Santa to women: “His polling numbers make clear that winning a majority of men’s votes will be a challenge. So the president is trying to keep women — who deserted his party in large numbers in 2010 — on board by fear-mongering on ‘women’s issues’….” Continue reading

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In the liberal Washington Post: Paycheck Fairness Act — A flawed approach to job bias

The bill seems to want employees to have as much control over a business as the employer has. Continue reading

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Women’s 77 cents to men’s dollar: What it really means

A lot of female workers in the higher ranges of women’s median income earn more — often much more — than a lot of male workers in the lower ranges of men’s median. Continue reading

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The Case Against the Paycheck Fairness Act

“The Paycheck Fairness Act looks like common sense, but instead of helping women it will hurt all workers.” Continue reading

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