The Washington Post upgraded President Obama’s gender inequality claims to two Pinocchios for continuing to use flawed statistics. Obama deceptively relies of the unsound claim that the “average full-time working woman earns just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns.” WaPo explains,
“Obama is using a figure (annual wages, from the Census Bureau) that makes the disparity appear the greatest—23 cents. But the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the gap is 19 cents when looking at weekly wages. The gap is even smaller when you look at hourly wages — it is 14 cents — but then not every wage earner is paid on an hourly basis, so that statistic excludes salaried workers.”
