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“In terms of a broad social strategy, I don’t think we would say that men’s salaries have to come down to equalize,” says Ariane Hegewisch, study director at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. “The assumption is women’s salaries should come up, so individual men are not made to pay for policies that went wrong.”