Happy Equal Pay Day! (Or, as I like to call it, Women’s New Year.) Today is the day that marks roughly how far into 2018 women had to work to earn a salary equal to what men got the year before.18 We’d throw a parade and street fair, but we were too busy working to organize one. This pay gap has been shrinking for more than three decades, but as of 2017, women still earn just 82 percent of what their male counterparts take home, according to calculations by the Pew Research Center.
The Pay Gap Is Way Too Entrenched To Be Solved By Women Alone
Maggie Koerth-Baker, FiveThirtyEight: Science & Health
Tue, 04/10/2018 - 7:36am
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