This article repeats the statistic that "Across all industries and occupations, full-time female workers earned 78 cents to every dollar a man earned in 2010."

This article repeats the statistic that "Across all industries and occupations, full-time female workers earned 78 cents to every dollar a man earned in 2010." That's phrased misleadingly. The truth is the median wage for full-time female workers is 78 cents of the median wage for full-time male workers. The difference in phrasing is important. Statistics are hard. The explanation is given in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwogDPh-Sow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwogDPh-Sow When you compare workers with equal experience, equal education, and equal training, the pay gap pretty much disappears. This claim can be correlated with laws against gender discrimination. It's illegal to pay women less than men for the same work. If the "78 cents" statistic was true as phrased above, most women would have grounds to sue for gender discrimination. Since those lawsuits aren't wide-spread, the discrimination isn't wide-spread either.