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Why pay transparency alone won't eliminate the persistent wage gap between men and women

  • Written by Nancy Modesitt, Associate Professor of Law, University of Baltimore
The gender pay gap has proved difficult to close. Ian johnston/shutterstock.com

No matter how you slice the data, women in the U.S. earn a lot less than men.

A typical woman working full-time makes 81 cents for every dollar a man earns, little more than the 77 cents she got a decade ago. Within careers, it can vary widely, with female physicians...

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