Fox News is celebrating Equal Pay Day by downplaying the problem of a pay gap between men and women in the United States.
April 8 marks the observance of Equal Pay Day, an awareness campaign to educate the public about the pay discrepancy between working men and women in the United States. According to the most recent report from the American Association of University Women (AAUW), women working full-time in 2012 took home approximately 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man working full-time, a ratio that has remained stagnant for nearly a decade.
Despite the discrepancy in take-home pay between American men and women, right-wing media voices, led by Fox News, continue to disregard the issue entirely, claiming either that the gap is not real or that it is too insignificant to merit a proactive response.
Watch Fox deny reality as it attempts to pretend the gender pay gap away:
Narration by Meagan Hatcher-Mays