This gender gap is not the result of rampant discrimination. Rather, it exists because men and women often work in different jobs, work different hours, and have different qualifications. When work experience, education, occupation, and hours of work are taken into account, the average woman makes 98 cents for every dollar earned by a man,” Sherk said.
So then why — if it’s true that women are getting paid 77 cents for every dollar a man makes; if women are not getting equal pay for doing the same job — why would any company hire any man at all? Why wouldn’t companies only hire women to do all the work and save 23 percent on their labor costs? This is not a rhetorical question," Goldberg said. "If greedy businessmen are fixated on “maximizing profits” how do we account for so many “overpaid” men in the workforce?"