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The gender wage gap.

Key fact number one.

The origin of the off-sighted 77 cents on the dollar statistic.

The commonly cited statistic that females earn 77 cents on the dollar statistic. The commonly cited statistic that females earn 77

cents on the dollar compared to males for the same work stems from a 2011 U.S. Census Bureau

report that stated, in 2010, the female-to-male earnings ratio of full-time year-round workers

was 0.77. This statistic has been widely parroted by those in media,

intelligentsia, and even in a summer 2012 campaign ad for Barack Obama during his second-term

run for the White House. This statistic, however, merely and broadly compares the salaries of

all working men to that of women working in all fields. Make no mistake, when you hear

the 77 cents on the dollar statistics cited, this is that to which they are referring.

Key fact number two. The disappearance of the gender wage gap when accounting for job choice,

education, and experience. A comprehensive study by Forbes found that when accounting for job choice, education, and experience. A comprehensive study by Forbes

found that when accounting for performing the same job, with comparable levels of experience,

qualifications, the gender wage gap between male and female workers completely disappears.

And according to some studies, such as those out of New Zealand and Australia, when it comes to

high earning careers, women sometimes actually earn more than men.

The more comprehensively this field was studied,

the more apparent it became that the wage gap is largely, if not entirely,

explained by the choices individual workers make.

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