No where in that article does it say women receive 78% of the wage of a man for the same job.
2. But, even after you drill down into specific occupations, the wage gap persists.
Take elementary and middle school teachers, for example. Women hold more than 70% of the jobs, yet men still earn more for the same role. Male teachers earn a median of $1,096 a week, whereas women earn $956 -- about 87 cents to the man's dollar.
The gap is even more pronounced in some other everyday professions. In retail sales, women earn 70 cents to the dollar, and among full-time lawyers, women earn 83 cents.
3. OK. But what does that actually look like, salary-wise?
It adds up. It can make the difference between five- and six-figure annual incomes.
This is especially true among tech jobs,
according to the Ladders, a job site that pulled salary data from 1.3 million people in the U.S. in 2014.In a technical director role, women earn less than six figures ($97,817) while a man with the same title will earn nearly $40,000 more a year. In an accountant role, there's a $32,578 salary gap.
5. For some women, it's even bleaker.
Black women make 64 cents and Latinas make 56 cents for every dollar earned by a white man.
There's also what Graves refers to as the "motherhood penalty": mothers tend to make even less than women who don't have children.