Because men tend to negotiate their salary more than women: hasn't this been beaten dead so many times before?

Ladies, if you believe you are underpaid, ask for a raise. If you're offered a job at a certain price and you believe it is unfair, say so. Ask for more, work/apply elsewhere; its what successful and happy men do and successful, happy women do as well.

Man up!

easy for you to say, dude. research shows that women that negotiate for more pay are sanctioned and are perceived as "difficult", which is why many are cowed into acquiescence, we know there is a price to pay for making demands, so we stay in jobs that pay us less than we deserve rather than not having jobs at all. only tough legislation will even out the playing field.

The wage gap is a long dead myth. If a company could hire cheap labor by hiring all women, don't you think it would have?

When you only perform 77% of the work, then you make only .77 per $1.00... Ave. is skewed because men do more dangerous & "heavy" jobs which tend to pay more. Subtract those out of the equation & it evens out to equal pay...

if only that were true rage.chaos. women earn less than men in almost all occupations, acc to the US Bureau of Statistics report from 2011.

A woman in her child bearing years will receive many times more dollar value in health care compensation than her male coworkers.

The job market and the workplace and the business world are all very competitive places. On average, men are still better competitors than are women. If women wish to succeed better, they need to compete better. Instead, they are asking for the government to protect them as if they were helpless children.

This is because men tend to work longer hours and hence get a better increment / bonus. Do a survey of performance related bonuses and it will tell you why men earn more. Furthermore, women don't like to commute much and prefer jobs which offer them flexibility like work from home while for men money is a bigger priority than comfort.

Is it not obvious that most women suffer from monthly hormonal imbalance that results in extreme mood swings and impaired judgement? My job in high school was at a grocery store and i noticed most women there called in sick for cramps or requested lighter duty. Seems to me that this is common sense yet our politically correct society makes it taboo bring this PMS issue to the arguement. Women and men are different, by design thank God, and therefore not equal in all respects. Why pretend we are all the same?

more liberal lies

Yes liberal lies, and women deserving what they get.. of course it's in men's interest to keep things the way they are, ie making more just because of your gender.. how very manly!

Know how to tell which side is right? Who uses hard facts and looks at ALL the data? Who resorts to mudslinging and namecalling?

This is the most skewed use of numbers I have ever seen. There have been numerous women where I have worked making more than men for the same position. This study also does not consider any significant differences in life choices or career paths. Women more often than men leave the workforce for a variety of reasons. Men do not have such a luxury and are held to a different standard concerning gaps in employment. I have seen women reenter the workforce after several years away making more pay than those employees that had had never left. Corporate America is not quite as kind to men that are not working as a traditional bread winner. Judgements are made questioning his work ethic, character, loyalty,intelligence, and his manhood. Those judgments come from women just as much as men. The standard has shifted but it points more in favor of women on income, life choices, and job flexibility. I think many of us including women know this However, once women statistically are making more than men will we rush to judgement and assume that there is some great injustice at work? Probably not!

Daniel, you are absolutely right about how the corporate world unfairly sanctions men who decide to, for example, care for their children at home, but the same obviously applies to women. This is in fact larger than an issue concerning only women. Traditional gender roles are just as stultifying for men as they are for women. As for skewed results, not sure how a personal observation of one workplace is a more reliable indicator. Besides the results are not in any way ground-breaking or revolutionary. This has been observed over many years, across many studies, and in all countries. In any case, this is a very interesting discussion, and a necessary one. Societies and our roles are in constant flux, and we only win by discussing and questioning them.

This Act is absolute nonsense. Don't be duped again by elected leaders that pander to groups claiming to represent the interest of women. Only imbeciles get duped again and again.