[kyrra]

This has been a mantra of many since the 1990s, and I continues to get proven false (generally). There are so many variables here.

If you want to read a book that directly talks about this, check out Thomas Sowell's "Economic facts and fallacies". There are chapters for both gender and race economic differences. Even though the book is ~14 years old, it counters these kinds of arguments.

[lazide]

It kind of misses the point though - many of the folks saying these things are well aware, but it benefits them. Which is why they say it.

[specialist]

2nd edition 2011.

Has Sowell, or maybe one his acolytes, updated his rhetoric to incorporate the findings of all the ongoing research into the gender pay gap?