Improving Pay Equity Would Mean Great Gains for Women
Source: Institute for Women's Policy Research, Press release, 2008
The Institute for Women's Policy Research has found that improving pay equity between women and men would create substantial economic gains for women and their families. IWPR finds that in 2008 dollars the typical woman worker would gain $5,710--an economy-wide gain of a staggering $319 billion--if equal pay were the norm. Over a 35-year working life, the typical woman would gain $210,000.
See also:
Equal Pay for Working Families: National and State Data on the Pay Gap and its Costs, 1999