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With women making about 82.5 percent of what men earned in 2014, the gender pay gap is alive and well in the U.S.
In Massachusetts, a state that generally has better work and pay opportunities for women, that gap isn’t expected to close until about 2058, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research . That means your newborn daughter – that cherub-faced bundle of joy lying in her crib as you read this post – will be 43 years old when gender pay equality is finally expected to be achieved in the Bay State.