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- The fight for women's pay equality has raged among activists, celebrities, and lawmakers for nearly half a century.
- Despite landmark American laws, women working in the US still face major obstacles, including a gender-based pay gap that costs them thousands of dollars every year.
The US passed the Equal Pay Act more than 50 years ago, but American women still face a substantial gender-based wage gap.
Despite landmark legislation and radical demonstrations made to push for pay parity between the sexes, the Institute for Women's Policy Research estimates equality might still be out of reach until 2059.
A woman working full-time in 2019 on average earns 80.7 cents for every dollar a man working full-time earns, which shrinks women's annual earnings, the median of which is $9,909 less than men's, according to data from the US Census Bureau.
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