The 77-Cent Gender Wage Gap Is a Statistical Sham
The 77-cent gender wage gap is one of the most aggressively promoted statistical lies in American political life. It won’t die — not because it’s true, not because it survives the slightest scrutiny — but because it is useful. Politicians repeat it, journalists amplify it, and advocacy groups fundraise off it. The fact that it is demonstrably, provably false has never slowed it down for a single news cycle. That ends here. ...