Today—March 31—is EqualPayDay, representing about how far into the year the average woman must work in order to earn what the average man earns in the previous year. But there's so much more to the story. From CarrieNBaker:
“The gender wage gap has not changed in a statistically significant way for over a decade,” testifiedpoverty for working women would be reduced by halfAs women age, the income gap persists.
Women are less likely to have pensions than men and they receive less social security on average than men—particularly poor women and women of color—in part because women’s care-giving labor for children, the elderly and ill family members is usually unpaid and given zero value in calculating Social Security payments. As a result,
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