Evidence of employers paying women 23% less than men for doing the same work is as elusive as Bigfoot sightings

Evidence of employers paying women 23% less than men for doing the same work is as elusive as Bigfoot sightings - AEI | Carpe Diem Blog » AEIdeas:
There is widespread acceptance by the general public, especially among women, progressives and Democrats, of the completely bogus claim that women are paid “77 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men,” in the words of President Obama. 
Hillary Clinton repackaged the bogus claim by stating recently that “On average, women need to work an extra two hours each day to earn the same paycheck as their male co-workers.” 
The National Committee on Pay Equityclaims that women have to work until sometime in mid-April each year to earn the same amount of income a typical man made the previous year. A recent report from the World Economic Forum claims that it will take 118 years – until 2133 – to close the world gender pay gap

Despite the widespread acceptance of the “77 cents on the dollar for the same job” claim, there is rarely ever any specific evidence presented showing that specific firms are in violation of federal law by paying women 23% less than men for doing the same job. 

What Obama, Clinton and gender activists are really implying is that firms across the country are illegally violating the Equal Pay Act of 1963 by paying women 77 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men, and those deliberate and ongoing violations are somehow going undetected. 

If there were such ubiquitous gender wage disparities in violation of federal law, why are there not extensive investigations by the Department of Justice or the Office of Civil Rights? 

And why isn’t there a cottage industry of law firms specializing in representing women who are victims of the supposed pervasive gender discrimination, the way there are hundreds of law firms representing mesothelioma victims who were exposed to asbestos on the job?

Just where do we find these companies that apparently have illegal dual-wage policies: one wage schedule for men and another one for women at wages 23% below their male co-workers for doing the same job? 
Where are the organizations that are paying women 23% less than men and exposing their organizations to legal prosecution, fines and penalties? 
Those questions are never answered by Obama, Clinton, the National Committee on Pay Equity, or the gender activists.

...Perversely perhaps, maybe the false “77 cents on the dollar” narrative is actually perpetuated by the total lack of any evidence that any employers actually pay women 23% less than men for the same job. After all, it’s better to keep those mythical violations very vague, ambiguous, and undocumented as a way to keep the myth alive, like very rare sightings of Bigfoot. If the bogus myth of widespread 23% gender wage gaps throughout the economy was ever exposed to the sunlight of evidence and truth, it would wilt and disappear, no longer available as a popular issue to generate political support and votes from women.

...Unfortunately, the 23% gender pay gap for the same work claim is a statistical fraud that keeps getting recycled and promoted by politicians like Obama and Clinton because it apparently has a huge political payoff for uniformed voters. 

And it will continue to have a political payoff as long as average Americans, especially women, buy the statistical snake-oil promoted by Democrats that women are paid 23% less than men on average for doing the same job..."