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By Emily Farra
And yet . . . 10 years later, women in the United States are earning just 80.7 cents for every dollar a man earns. The disparity is greater for women of color, and apparently this won’t change anytime soon: The Institute for Women’s Policy Research estimates that true wage equality won’t be reached until 2059.