For as long as I can remember I’ve been told that men earn more money than women do. There are National Women’s organizations like The National Organization for Women and Business and Professional Women and Feminists for Life. These groups tell us the cold hard facts; women aren’t paid as well as men:
- In 2007, women’s median annual paychecks reflected only 78 cents for every $1.00 earned by men.
- Women’s median pay was less than men’s in each and every one of the 20 industries and 25 occupation groups surveyed by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2007.
- When The WAGE Project looked exclusively at full-time workers, they estimated that women with a high school diploma lose as much as $700,000 over a lifetime of work, women with a college degree lose $1.2 million and professional school graduates may lose up to $2 million.
Is this true?