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[I’m sure this won’t actually be a daily feature here at V&V, but it’s a pretty reliable description of what much of my blogging is about, so.] This is how it goes.  You tell me you’ve figured out what the “77 cents to a dollar” means, and it isn’t that a woman working the same job as a man gets paid that much less.  It’s comparing women’s median pay with men’s median pay, without accounting for the jobs they’re in or hours worked or what.  And also there’s a study that among educated 22-30 year old non-parenting...

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