So much for coming a long way, baby — the gender pay gap has barely budged over the past 20 years.
American women typically still earned just 82 cents for every $1 a man made last year, which is depressingly close to what the gender pay gap was in 2002, when women earned 80 cents to the dollar. That’s according to a new Pew Research Center data essay released on Wednesday afternoon in honor of Women’s History Month in March and ahead of Equal Pay Day on March 14 — the latter symbolizes how far into the year U.S. women must…
