FOXNEWS: No Gender gap?

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/special-report-bret-baier/videos#p/86927/v/1863012020001

Fox News claims that the difference in wage pay is due to choices of women. But it is not how the gender gap is calculated - you have to compare men and women doing SAME jobs. Here is an example of a serious study study which shows that indeed gender gap is about 30%.

Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross‐Country Analysis of Gender Gaps

Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

Journal of Labor Economics , Vol. 26, No. 4 (October 2008), pp. 621-654

Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Society of Labor Economists and the NORC at the University of Chicago

Article DOI: 10.1086/589458

Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/589458

SSRN page: 

Direct Link: http://people.bu.edu/olivetti/papers/paper_jan07.pdf

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=906091##

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Comment from Mediamatters: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/27/fox-news-women-earning-less-than-men-is-not-a-n/190161