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Today is Equal Pay Day, founded in 1996 to spread awareness of the income inequality faced by women around the world. The gender wage gap has long been controversial, and despite efforts to end it—including the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Equal Rights Amendment—the disparity persists. Little progress has been made over the last 30 years, and at the current rate, it would take at least 35 more years before income equality is reached, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.
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