Editing Equal pay for equal work (section)

==Criticism==
Criticisms of the principle of equal pay for equal work by women include criticism of the mechanisms used to achieve it and the methodology by which the gap is measured.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bialik|first=Carl|title=Not All Differences in Earnings are Created Equal|url=https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304198004575172382976442708|work=Wall Street Journal|date=10 April 2010|access-date=10 April 2014}}</ref>  Some{{who|date=November 2015}} believe that government actions to correct gender pay disparity serve to interfere with the system of voluntary exchange. They argue the fundamental issue is that the employer is the owner of the job, not the government or the employee. The employer negotiates the job and pays according to performance, not according to job duties. Others contend that men are perceived to be high performers based on the same skill that a woman would have been able to do. A private business would not want to lose its best performers by compensating them less and can ill afford paying its lower performers higher because the overall productivity will decline.<ref name="Caveat for Employers">Vedantam, Shankar (2009) "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/31/AR2009053102081.html Caveat for Employers]." Washington Post, June 1, 2009, page A8</ref><ref name="Subtle, and stubborn, race bias">Jackson, Derrick (2009) "[http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2009/07/06/subtle_and_stubborn_race_bias/ Subtle, and stubborn, race bias]." Boston Globe, July 6, 2009, page A10</ref> However, the [[Independent Women's Forum]] cites another study that prognosticates the wage gap possibly disappearing "when controlled for experience, education, and number of years on the job".<ref>O'Neill, June. "The Gender Gap in Wages, circa 2000" American Economic Review, Vol. 93, No. 2 (May 2003), pp. 309-314.</ref>