There is NO GENDER WAGE GAP! Is there a gender wage gap? Are women paid less than men to do the same work? Christina Hoff Sommers, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, explains the data. Christina Hoff Sommers, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, If, for the same work, women make only 77 cents for every dollar a man makes, why don’t businesses hire only women?  Wages are the biggest expense for most businesses. So, hiring only women would reduce costs by nearly a quarter – and that would go right to the bottom line. Don’t businesses want to be profitable? Or, are they just really bad at math? Well, actually, it’s the feminists, celebrities, and politicians spreading this wage gap myth who have the math problem.  Here’s why: The 77-cents-on-the-dollar statistic is calculated by dividing the median earnings of all women working full-time by the median earnings of all men working full-time. In other words, if the average income of all men is, say