It’s International Women’s Day! The gender pay gap myth continues

If you have avoided social media, television news or the radio then you may not be aware that today is International Women’s Day. It’s the day when the often purported myth of gender pay inequity is repeated over and over again. Although this whole 77-cent myth has been dispelled by many economists and pundits over the years, it’s still something uttered by politicians, activists, unions and anyone else with a particular agenda.

Here are some articles that we have written on the issue over the past year or two:

A Logical Statistic: Lesbians earn more than heterosexual women

9 statistics Patricia Arquette needs to read on gender wage gap myth

Do gender wage gap proponents like Sarah Silverman even read the studies?

UFC champion Ronda Rousey lays the economic smackdown on feminist

Interesting statistic: NBA players earn more than WNBA players

Will young men be helped? New study says young women earn more than young men

Will feminists demand gender equality in logging and roofing?

Women don’t get paid as much as men in sports because they don’t draw

Here are some other incredible pieces written on this subject:

Why Ronda Rousey is Right About The Gender Pay Gap

What’s Behind the Gender Wage Gap

Is Sexism The Primary Factor For Gender Pay Gap?

The Honesty Gap

The ’77 percent’ statistical fraud on gender pay gap issue

The Truth About Income Inequality

The ‘Wage Gap’ Myth That Won’t Die

No, Women Don’t Make Less Money Than Men

Of course, here are a couple of videos of Thomas Sowell dispelling this myth with pure accuracy:

There you have it, the next time some espouses the false 23-cent pay gap between men and women on International Women’s Day then simply point to this article with many of the resources you need to just shut down that statistic once and for all.

Here’s one last thing: if women did make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns then businesses would strictly hire women. They’d save 23 percent in labor costs!