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It's Equal Pay Day. Women earn 84 cents for every dollar men make — or even less

Women working full-time, year-round jobs earn 84 cents for every dollar men make, and part-timers make even less. Women have to work well into March before they earn what men made the year before.
Employees of Goodbody & Co. work at the stock brokerage's headquarters in Manhattan, N.Y., circa 1965.

Equal Pay Day has come around again, and it feels a little like Groundhog Day.

Despite the annual reminder about how far into the new year women have to work to earn as much as men made the previous year, the wage gap

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