The Myth of Gender Pay Gap

The Myth of Gender Pay Gap
T-shirts are seen for sale at the Female Future Force Day event at bcc Congress Center in Berlin, Germany, on Oct. 12, 2024. Adam Berry/Getty Images
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We’ve been reading about the gender pay gap for many decades. Now it has become wider for two years straight, the first such reported plunge since the 1960s. This has fired up yet another movement to do something about it: crack down on discrimination, mandate equality in pay, and formalize the rules on who gets a raise and who does not.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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