Question

In the United States, women earn 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. True or False?

Answer 1

Answer - TRUE (Based on Annual wages)

The Census Bureau did an analysis of the annual wages of all male and female workers in the United States regardless of occupation, and reported that women who worked full-time, year-round in 2010 made 77 cents for every dollar men earned across the country.

Conversely, the Bureau of Labor Statistics analyzed the pay gap by the weekly wages of men and women in America in 2010; the BLS report  released in showed that women earned 81 cents of every dollar earned by men.

Answer 2

Answer:

True

Explanation:

The most commonly cited statistic for the gender wage gap asserts that women earn only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men. However, a great deal of contention surrounds statistics measuring and quantifying the gender wage gap, and this confusion is not entirely without merit. Some of the controversy around wage-gap estimates and figures is at least partly due to the fact that, like many statistics, the exact figure changes slightly depending on the data source used. With competing statistics and a highly politicized issue, the very existence of the wage gap is often called into question—along with its significance and driving causes