Bridging the Divide: The Persistent Gender Pay Gap in the United States

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Bridging the Divide: The Persistent Gender Pay Gap in the United States

The gender pay gap in the United States is a measure comparing the earnings of men and women in the workforce. The average female annual earnings is around 80% of the average male’s.  Any given raw wage gap can be dissected into an explained part, due to differences in characteristics such as education, hours worked, work experience, and occupation, and/or an unexplained part, which is typically attributed to discrimination, differences not cont…