It’s not intellectual dishonesty, but a simple matter of how the wage gap is defined. If you take the wage gap simply as the percentage of men’s earnings withou

It’s not intellectual dishonesty, but a simple matter of how the wage gap is defined. If you take the wage gap simply as the percentage of men’s earnings without correcting for anything, you can then take that measure and see how it changes over time and by region. That’s useful and worthwhile research. But for some reason any mention of the wage gap makes some people so angry that they refuse to look at the actual studies and how they work.