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This is bullshit. You forgot to control for so many factors.

1) These numbers are not for same jobs. Men and women choose to study in different fields, and end up working in different fields.

2) Men work longer hours

3) Men take fewer sick days

4) Men negotiate salaries better

5) Men take on more dangerous jobs

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I don't think you made it past the first table of numbers, which the author wasn't satisified with.

Later in the article, Matthew Prestifilippo accounts for the factors you mention (except salary negotiation) and lists various occupations in which women or men have pay advantages in the aggregate.

from what I know that's what wage gap refers to, not gaps in payment for the same job. From your reasoning it seems like you're part of the problem

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