Maar in die Federale Regering, waar salarisse op sekere vlakke vasgestel is en almal weet wat dié vlakke is, krimp die salarisgaping tussen geslagte na 11%, en dit vóór gekontrolleer is vir enige van die faktore waaroor ekonome stry om te kontrolleer of nie.
But in the Federal Government, where salaries are pinned to certain levels and everybody knows what those levels are, the gender wage gap shrinks to 11 percent -- and this is before controlling for any of the factors that economists argue over whether or not to control for.