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WASHINGTON -- It will be 50 years before the pay of women matches that of men and another century will pass before women make up half of the U.S. Congress, a report released Tuesday by an independent research organization predicted.
Across the nation, women make 68 cents for every dollar earned by white male workers. Black and Hispanic women earn about 63 cents and 53 cents per dollar, respectively, of what their white male counterparts make.See the full content of this document
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Women Still Struggling to Make Gains
The Status of Women in the States report, released by the Washington-based Institute for Women's Policy Research, showed that the wage gap has narrowed from 1989 to 2002,...
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