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Heather Boushey wonders why there has been so little progress towards closing the pay gap.
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The Department of Labor has released its latest data on women’s earning, and the Economix blog highlights how younger women experience a smaller wage gap relative to young male workers. In 2009, women ages 16 to 19 who worked full-time earned 90.7 percent of what men earned, while women ages 20 to 24 earned 92.9 percent, and women ages 45 to 54 earned just 73.6 percent.
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