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The gender wage gap isn’t about women’s choices. It’s about how we value their work.

By Emily Crockett First of all, researchers have found that [...]

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Women are Four Times More Likely than Men to Work in Jobs with Poverty-Level Wages

In advance of Equal Pay Day on April 12, 2016, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) released new analysis finding that 6.5 million women work in occupations that have median earnings for full-time work for women below the federal poverty threshold for a family of four, compared with 1.7 million men.

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