[TruthShallSetYouFree]

The Big Lie is that a woman is paid only 72% of what a man is paid, with the implication (or, sometimes, the outright claim) that they are doing the exact same job. That violates a very basic law of economics. If a business owner or department manager could get a job performed by a woman for $72,000 instead of paying a man $100,000, he (or SHE) would hire the woman every time.

[Interesting Times]

The unequal pay lie is based on aggregating the salaries of all men and women in the country and coming up with meaningless averages. This ignores the following: 1) men, on average, have more years of work experience, 2) men tend to choose higher-paying jobs (engineering and programming rather than teaching and social work), and 3) men fill the vast majority of physically dangerous jobs (cops, firefighters, construction, fishing, high steel, etc.).

With minor exceptions, equal work for equal pay is already a reality in the U.S.