claim: women make only 78 percent of what men make for the same job.
author: viral buzzfeed
evidence_1: apr 12, 2016 ... gender equality in the workplace isn't just good for women—it's ... using the  statistic that women make 78 cents on the dollar as ... that the median earnings of  full-time female workers is 77 percent of ... the latter gives the impression that a  man and a woman standing next to each other doing the same job ...
evidence_2: apr 2, 2015 ... democrats cite the same factoid about the male-female pay gap. ... it is not  acceptable that women are making 78 cents an hour compared to men.” ... many  of whom are women — have a primary job that fills nine months out of the year. ...  prime age women earned just 38 percent of what prime age men ...
evidence_3: the gender pay gap is real, and it gets worse as women move up in their careers.  ... in fact, when an equally qualified man and woman do the same job, the woman  ... what's more, the gender pay gap only grows for women who manage to rise to  ... at the time of receiving a job offer make 4.0 percent less than someone who ...
evidence_4: apr 14, 2016 ... ... okay that women get paid 20 percent less than a man for doing the same job?”  ... (in 2012, 2013 and 2014, it was 77 cents; in 2015, it was 78 cents; and in .... “ when women make just 79 cents for every dollar a man makes, ...
evidence_5: apr 14, 2015 ... men and women tend to work in very different professions. ... that's the trouble  with just using the 78 cents statistic: it doesn't take into ... women hold more than  70% of the jobs, yet men still earn more for the same role.