Here’s How Religion Contributes to the Wage Gap

When politicians and pundits say women make 77 cents for every dollar a man makes, it's usually a prelude to the "equal pay for equal work" argument. That's a fine goal, of course, but the statistic is misleading. The problem isn't that women and men get paid different amounts for the same work, but that a variety of forces lead women and men to take different jobs with very different salaries.According to a working paper by Travis Wiseman (Mississippi State University) and Nabamita Dutta (University of Wisconsin, La Crosse), religion is one of the main factors shaping that wage gap.