If for the same work women only make $0.77 for every dollar a man makes, why don't businesses

hire only women?

Wages are the biggest expense for most businesses, so hiring only women would reduce costs by

nearly a quarter, and that would go right to the bottom line.

Don't businesses want to be profitable?

Or are they really just bad at math?

Well, actually, it's the feminists, celebrities, and politicians spreading this wage cap myth

who have the math problem.

Here's why.

The $0.77 on the dollar statistic is calculated by dividing the median earnings of all women

working full-time by the median earnings of all men working full-time.

In other words, if the average income of all men is, say, $40,000 a year, and the average

annual income of all women is, say, $30,800, that would mean that women earn $0.77 for

every dollar a man earns.

$0.30,800 divided by $40,000 equals 0.77.

But these calculations don't reveal a gender wage injustice, because they don't take

into account occupation, position, education, or hours work per week.

Even a study by the American Association of University Women, a feminist organization,

shows that the actual wage gap shrinks to only $0.6 when you factor in different choices

men and women make.

And the key word here is choice.

The small wage gap that does exist has nothing to do with paying women less, let alone with

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