Why Pay Equality Is Still Out of Reach

摘要

There's an essential, frustrating truth about the gender pay gap: You can size it up or down depending on what you'd like to measure-and what you'd like to measure depends on what you think the pay gap is. Are you talking about all women across the economy? In a specific industry? A specific company? In certain jobs? "You can whittle the pay gap down when you control for more and more variables," says Henry Farber, an economics professor at Princeton University. "But you can never make it go away."