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same job, same output, different paycheck — the invoice for being the wrong demographic.
means the measurable difference in average earnings between groups, usually men and women, doing comparable work.
from tracked seriously since the equal pay act of 1963, when women earned 59 cents to a man's dollar and someone finally wrote it down.
us averagewomen earn about 84 cents per male dollar
lifetime costcan exceed 400,000 dollars over a career
motherhood penaltygap widens sharply after having children
race compounds itblack and latina women face the widest gaps
for instance
equal pay act 1963 — us law banning sex-based wage discrimination, largely unenforced since
iceland strike 1975 — 90 percent of women walked out, country stopped functioning
bbc pay scandal 2017 — carrie gracie resigned over china editor pay disparity
lilly ledbetter case — goodyear employee sued after decades of secret underpayment