Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis report concludes that "the raw gender gap is the improper indicator" for policy decisions.
Natalia A. Kolesnikova, Yang Liu, "The Gender Wage Gap," Economic Synopses, no. 25 (2011): 1-2
Current research suggests that gender earnings disparity has declined but not disappeared. The adjusted (“true”) gender wage gap, however, is substantially smaller than the raw gender wage gap. Because of this, the raw gender gap is the improper indicator for policymakers to use to justify corrective actions.