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Hi JanS. I think JeanValjean is referring to this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-white-houses-use-of-data-on-the-gender-wage-gap/2012/06/04/gJQAYH6nEV_blog.html

This article suggests the actual wage gap is only 5 cents on the dollar once you take into account that women and men often choose different college majors.

Not surprisingly, different studies come to different conclusions. So if the question is “what is the wage gap” the answer is “it depends how you measure the wage gap.”

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[skeeter]

Hi JanS. I think JeanValjean is referring to this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-white-houses-use-of-data-on-the-gender-wage-gap/2012/06/04/gJQAYH6nEV_blog.html

This article suggests the actual wage gap is only 5 cents on the dollar once you take into account that women and men often choose different college majors.

Not surprisingly, different studies come to different conclusions. So if the question is “what is the wage gap” the answer is “it depends how you measure the wage gap.”

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