The gender pay gap is insignificant.

Happy debating to you as well. I"m going to start this debate by showing how you have misrepresented what politifact actually stated and then continue with showing how the study that politifact used to justify its statements actually contradicts your assertion that "the gender pay gap is insignificant" and finish my first round with showing that even if the study showed that the gender pay gap is insignificant, it would be irrelevant as the study is flawed. 1.Misrepresentation of politifact: You have claimed that "according to politifact if lets say a man make very good choices and earns 50000 a year a woman who makes the same choices will make 47,500 dollars a year." However, this is a misrepresentation of what politifact actually stated: "The study by CONSAD Research Corp. took into account women being more likely to work part-time for lower pay, leave the labor force for children or elder care, and choose work that is "family friendly" with fuller benefit packages over higher pay. The study found that, when factoring in those variables, the gap narrows to between 93 cents and 95 cents on the dollar." [1] It seems as if you were being intentionally deceptive by only reporting the projection that best suited your needs (95 %) while simply excluding the more daunting projection that showed that the wage gap could actually be 40% bigger than you stated and not directly citing your source (such as providing a link). Additionally, another study that politifact cited also found a 7% net wage gap, which contradicts your claim of a 5% net wage gap. "Still, a study by the American Association of University Women controlled for a number of factors, including college major, occupation, age, geographical region and hours worked, and found a persistent 7 percent wage gap between men and women a year after graduating college. "[1] 2.The study that politifact based its reports on actually states that the wage gap is statistically significant. "They found that when earnings were measured as only the hourly wage rate, they differed statistically significantly between genders in six of the seven occupational categories." [2] 3.The CONSAD study is flawed. One of several flaws is that discriminatory hiring practices (studies indicate that there is a 25% discrimination rate between male and female job applicants [3]) which lead to women"s average work experience not being as good as men"s are classified as an "explained" difference in the CONSAD study and therefore not included in the 5-7% "net pay gap". Therefore, the actual wage gap would be higher if discriminatory hiring practices were not excluded from the study. In conclusion, the wage gap is significant as, even according to the flawed study and your deceptive report of the net wage gap there is still a 5% wage gap and when the study"s actual results are taken into account the net wage gap is projected to be up to 7% which even further increases when factors that were not taken into account by the study such as discriminatory hiring practices are accounted for. Additionally, I would like to ask you: would you consider it irrelevant if more than 5% of your salary was withheld from you because of discrimination? I doubt anyone would consider that either irrelevant or insignificant. Sources: [1]: http://www.politifact.com... [2]: https://www.shrm.org... p.14 [3]: http://eclairs.fr... p.6