Today is Equal Pay Day, and the
Equal Pay Day symbolizes how far into 2012 the average woman must work to earn what the average man earned in 2011. While the wage gap has certainly narrowed with the past generation of working women–in 1967 women only earned about
The gender pay gap is not just an issue of fairness. It is also a question of economic empowerment, both for working women and for their families. In 2010 the median full-time working man took home
Also included in the package of resources on the gender wage gap is a list of the top 10 facts about the wage gap:
In 2010 women who worked full time, year round, still only earned 77 percent of what men earned. The median earnings for women were
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