Men Vs. Women Salary Differential Explained.

This dumb statistic again. They try to use it to show some sort of systematic discrimination. All it is, is the average of all salaries.

If a man in West Virginia goes into the coal mines, and a woman answers telephones for the coal company, the man will make more. It's more dangerous, it's hot, it's dirty. There's compensation.

Show me a male and female college graduate in accounting who hire into the same firm, doing the same job, and get paid different salaries.

As careers progress, people make different choices. With lawyers, some men work 100 hours a week and make a lot of money. While some women do as well, more women choose to work 50 hours a week and make less money. This is a lifestyle choice, not discrimation.

ABC NEWS: In fact, from Alaska to Rhode Island, only women located in one place brought home more than the estimated $45,485 average median salary for men in all 50 states -- the District of Columbia, where women earned an estimated median salary of more than $54,000 in 2009.

While the women earners in D.C. trailed men in the same area by more than $7,000, the capital is likely to pay women 88 percent of the earnings of men -- a high percentage for the United States.