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The Myth of the Gender Pay-Gap


April 30th, 2007 · Business, Economics, and Finance, World Affairs

myth of gender pay gapDo you think that women earn lower salaries than men for the same work? If so, you’d bet­ter read this. Don’t buy into empty rhetoric — whether it comes from lib­er­als or con­ser­v­a­tives. Stud­ies that claim to prove the wage-gap the­ory can never iso­late gen­der as the only vari­able that accounts for the dif­fer­ence in income.

There are numer­ous fac­tors involved — par­tic­u­larly involv­ing the choices that women make.