Claim: "Women in Oregon are paid 79 cents for every dollar paid to men. If the wage gap was eliminated, a working woman in Oregon would have enough money for 2,877 gallons of gas, 72 more weeks of food for her family or nearly 12 more months of rent."
Fact-check: Would eliminating the pay gap in Oregon let women buy 2,877 gallons of gas, 72 weeks of food or nearly 12 months of rent?
Verdict: true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Dana Tims
Date published: 2014-04-10T00:00:00