Annie Zak is a social justice warrior of the worst kind.  I don't know how the Alaska Dispatch can in good conscious allow her to perpetuate the 3rd wave feminism myth of the wage gap and call it "Business news," but she's not Alaskan and her fake news doesn't belong here.  The false narrative of the "wage gap" has been debunked over and over again:  it doesn't account for the comparative number of hours worked, the job fields being compared, or the life choices that men and women make.
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The fact is that Women out-earn men in many job fields and represent more of certain professions. They also earn college and postgraduate degrees at higher rates than men.  You can't simply present the BLS statistic of "Women’s earnings as a percentage of men’s," call it "the wage gap," and then call it a day.  Without the context and needed perspective behind those figures it's meaningless and a false narrative. Alaska Dispatch should be ashamed.