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* * Date: September 2012 Source: Institute for Women’s Policy Research

Link: http://bit.ly/OwAWxY Headline/Title: *The Gender Wage Gap: 2011*

*Summary: * (article includes link to the 4 page paper) The ratio of women’s and men’s median annual earnings was 77.0 for full-time/year-round workers in 2011, essentially unchanged from 77.4 in 2010. (This means the gender wage gap for full-time/year-round workers is now 23 percent.) During the last decade the wage gap narrowed by less than half of one percentage point. In the previous decade, between 1991 and 2000, it closed by almost four, and in the decade prior to that, 1981 and 1990, by over ten percentage points.**

*Author:* Ariane Hegewisch, Angela Edwards For the Full Article/Report, See: http://bit.ly/OwAWxY