Men's Group

This accounts for 4% of the pay gap. More hours was one other factor. Industry selection is another. Overtime work is another. Tenure on the job is another. Jobs that favor fringe benefits over pay is another. Selecting occupations that have less risk of physical injury is another. All of these factors disparately affect women in regards to raw weekly wages and have nothing to do with illegal discrimination. If you read the fine print in the study authored by the AAUW (which is a feminist organization), you'll find that even they admit the unexplained portion of the pay gap is 7% once socially acceptable factors have been applied. Also within that 7% you'll find factors which are difficult, if not impossible to quantify. Just one of those factors is illegal discrimination. So whatever portion of the pay gap which is due to illegal discrimination is nowhere near the 23% figure you are quoting which makes the figure useless for public policy decisions.