[belorn]

The key word in such research is called "Adjusted pay gap" vs "Unadjusted pay gap".

Differences in hours worked, occupations chosen, education, job experience, and location are the big ones. Then there are a few additional ones like age and health.

Depending on which study you either end up with a very minor (~5%) difference between women and men, or none.

With unadjusted pay gap that chooses to limit the selection to fully employed you get a number around 60% in the US. If you don't limit and count all citizen you get a weird number, and if you look at the problem from a social economic status perspective you get an even weirder results.

[robbick]

That is really interesting, and not what I had been lead to believe, but could you provide me with any reliable sources to this affect?