Equal Pay Day – the day in the calendar women allegedly have to work until in order to earn as much as a man earned the previous year – was this past week. You can tell because of the resurgence of Democrats, activists, and celebrities claiming that women are victimized because they don’t earn, on average, as much money as men.
The truth behind the “gender wage gap” is that women are not being paid less than men for the same job. Women and men earn different amounts of money each year, on average, because of how many hours they work, what careers they choose, and whether they take time away from work for things like parenthood. These choices made by men and women lead to different average earnings at the end of the year, but that is not evidence that men and women are paid differently.
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