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10 Wildly Depressing Facts About the Gender Wage Gap

Sarah Jane Glynn, Audrey Powers, Center for American Progress. April 16, 2012.

If progress continues at its current rate, it will take 45 years to eradicate the wage gap.

Unemployment Is Hitting Men Particularly Hard -- and Both Sexes Are Losing Out

Betsy Reed, The Nation. April 8, 2009.

As men lose their jobs, households are depending increasingly on the relatively meager wages of women to stay afloat.

Congress Sets Sights on Closing the Wage Gap

Allison Stevens, Women's eNews. January 23, 2009.

More than 40 years after Congress passed a law making it illegal for employers to pay women less than men for the same work, women still earn less.

Obama vs. McCain on Equal Pay

Kay Steiger, RH Reality Check. October 14, 2008.

Both candidates say they favor equal pay, but how do they vote?

50 More Years of Women Making Less Money Than Men?

Jennifer Waldref, Women's eNews. July 10, 2008.

Research shows pay discrimination isn't going anywhere soon. Neither are promotion barriers, sexual harassment or bias against mothers.

Recent findings shed new light on the increasingly unequal terrain of American society. The new "top" involves pay in the hundreds of millions, a private jet and a few acres of Nantucket. The new bottom is slavery.

The Wage Gap for Women

Debra Katz, Justine F. Andronici, Ms. Magazine. November 27, 2006.

It's time to abolish the "she-didn't-ask" defense for wage discrimination.