This whole concept of 'women being paid $0.24 less on average than men' really gets my goat. For starters most studies can't even agree on the actual number, deviating as much as $0.05. Secondly, if it were true the majority of businesses would hire women over men due to the save in costs and this simply isn't true. Thirdly, the studies I have read havn't specified what jobs they are comparing. So as far as I know they are comparing a high-school teacher to a janitor to a CEO of a large company the statistics will be skewed. If the average male fast food worker, earned $0.24 more than the female equivalent it would make sense but they are comparing the earning of every woman in America to every male in America, which makes no sense at all. If they took a random sample size of 100 men and 100 woman and one woman in the sample population happened to earn several million a year it would throw the average far off. It would look like women earn far more than men. Hitherto, averages are wank and if anyone is trying to prove anything with it, they are ignoring the majority of details.