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Working Together to Eliminate Montana’s Wage Gap

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Tuesday, April 2, 2019, is Equal Pay Day—a nationally recognized day symbolizing how far into the year women must work to earn what a man earned in the previous year. The national gender wage gap is 20 percent, which means for every dollar a man earns, a woman earns just $0.80 for doing the same job. Some of this difference can be explained by the types of jobs worked predominantly by men and women, but research consistently shows a gender wage gap exists even after controlling for other factors.

Here in Montana, women experience a 27 percent wage gap and earn just $0.73 for every dollar a man earns for doing the same job. Montanans are being shortchanged thousands of dollars a year, and hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of a lifetime.

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