Plodding at the pace of a penny a year, it will be a long time before women and men end a calendar year with pay equity.
How long? According to a recent report by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), it will be 40 years before women earn a dollar’s pay for a dollar’s work. Keep the clock ticking for women of color; black women earn only 60 cents per man’s dollar and Latinas earn 55 cents.