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cosmic–narwhal:

How it’s worded:

Women make 77¢ for every $1 a man makes.

How it should be worded:

Women earn 23% less than men on average in the workplace.
Not due to societal factors favouring men over women, but due to women’s choices of which industry to build a career in.
These careers, more often than not; tend to pay less than those that men choose to go into on average.  Men’s chosen fields tend to pay more due to factors like their importance to the economy, risk of injury, longer hours etc.

It’s not as simple as “Women make less”

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