Megan McArdle, Columnist

Government Can't Fix Real Gender Pay Gap

The remaining work on the pay gap has to be done in places where the government, or indeed any explicit policy, has difficulty going.
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In today's episode of dueling op-eds, Mark Perry and Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute argue against the "myth" that women earn 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man.

At MSNBC, however, Irin Carmon argues that the pay gap remains a large societal problem: