The gender wage gap is a myth

**Zuberi** · 28th-July-2012

The gender wage gap is a myth

Commentary: Bad comparisons make for bad data
The gender wage gap is a myth - Outside the Box - MarketWatch

By Diana Furchtgott-Roth
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — We hear it over and over again: the myth of the gender wage “gap.”
Here’s President Obama, speaking on June 4: “And we’ve made progress. But we’ve got a lot more to do. Women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns.”
An Obama campaign TV ad, entitled “First Law,” which began airing June 21, showed the same 77 cent figure.
Just one problem — it isn’t true. Here are three myths about the wage “gap.”
Myth 1: Women get less pay for equal work. The spurious assertion that women are paid 77 cents for a man’s wage dollar comes from comparing the earnings of all full-time men with those of all full-time women.

Looks like someone else got tired of the feminist smoke and mirrors.

**Bigger Brother** · 28th-July-2012

The 'Wage Gap' is indeed a myth.

However the Effort Gap, Commitment Gap, Determination Gap, Focus Gap, Hours Worked Gap, Danger Gap, Dirty/Filthy Jobs Gap are REAL.

**Marx** · 28th-July-2012

...death on the job gap, suicide gap, parent with custody gap...

**Douglas** · 30th-July-2012

...life expectation gap, conscription gap, criminal sentencing gap, unemployment gap ...

**That Nordic Guy** · 1st-August-2012

Ah yes, yet another show of Data rape

**byslexic_danana** · 8th-August-2012

Or, more relevant to the issue at hand: the wealth-control gap; the spending-decision-gap; the taxation gap (that feminists talk of increasing further, to benefit women). Earning, taking home, and, perhaps above all, SPENDING, are very different things. I've always questioned as to how much of a privilege it is, to earn the most money in the household, by working the most hours, only to have the wife be responsible for how it gets spent, for the main part; a dubious 'privilege' indeed....