&gt;Compounding the injustice, she said, is the wage gap. Federal data shows women in the United States earn about 79 cents for every dollar paid to men. “It’s a double whammy,” Menin said<p>That statistic completely ignores experience and numbers of hours worked per week.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;realspin&#x2F;2012&#x2F;04&#x2F;16&#x2F;its-time-that-we-end-the-equal-pay-myth&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;realspin&#x2F;2012&#x2F;04&#x2F;16&#x2F;its-time-tha...</a><p>&quot;The wage gap statistic, however, doesn’t compare two similarly situated co-workers of different sexes, working in the same industry, performing the same work, for the same number of hours a day.  It merely reflects the median earnings of all men and women classified as full-time workers.&quot;