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    It's Equal Pay Day. The gender pay gap has hardly budged in 20 years. What gives?

    Women have to work nearly 15 months to earn what a man earns in 12. And that's been true for decades.
    by Stacey Vanek Smith Mar 14, 2023 2 minutes
    Women earn about 82 cents for every dollar men make, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. That means on March 14, women's pay catches up to what men made in 2022.

    Tuesday is Equal Pay Day: March 14th represents how far into the year women have had to work to catch up to what their male colleagues earned the previous year.

    In other words, women have to work nearly 15 months to earn what men make in 12 months.

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