The Daily Caller is promoting a flawed report that attributes the gender pay gap to women's preference for less lucrative jobs. In reality, women earn significantly less than men in the same occupation and the claim that personal choice is responsible for the gender wage gap has been thoroughly debunked.

In a May 31 article, The Daily Caller hyped salary tracking website PayScale's new report that women earn 81 cents on the dollar compared to men simply due to personal choice:

Salary tracking website PayScale released a report Thursday pushing back on the idea of a gender pay gap.

The report found that although women earn an average 81 cents on the dollar to when compared to men, it's because women choose lower paying jobs.

"Unequal pay for equal work? Not really,"show that women's median earnings are lower than men's in most occupations, even those dominated by women. According to an April 2012 fact sheet from the Institute for Women's Policy Research, "Women's median earnings are lower than men's in nearly all occupations, whether they work in occupations predominantly done by women, occupations predominantly done by men, or occupations with a more even mix of men and women."

Even a 2009 report published by the Bush Labor Department found "the adjusted gender wage gap ... is between 4.8 and 7.1 percent" when controlling for variables including occupation, career interruption, and industry sector.

The gender pay gap is particularly important in light of Pew Research's May 29 study, which found that mothers are the primary or sole breadwinner in 40 percent of