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    Gender Pay Gap Narrows, and Persists

    This posting points to a new Pew Research Center report about the gender pay gap, which includes census data about earnings as well as a survey of attitudes.

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    10 Findings about Women in the Workplace

    Ten key findings from a new Pew Research Center survey and analysis of Census data that explores the views, values and economic realities of women and men in the workplace.

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    How Pew Research measured the gender pay gap

    Women earned 84 cents for every $1 made by men in 2012, according to a Pew Research report. But in October, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that women earned 81 cents to the dollar. The difference is not large, but what gives?

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    On Pay Gap, Millennial Women Near Parity – For Now

    A new cohort of young women—members of the so-called Millennial generation—has been entering the workforce for the past decade. At the starting line of their careers, they are better educated than their mothers and grandmothers had been—or than their young male counterparts are now. But when they look ahead, they see roadblocks to their success.

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    Breadwinner Moms

    A record 40% of all households with children under the age of 18 include mothers who are either the sole or primary source of income for the family, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The share was just 11% in 1960.

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    A Gender Reversal On Career Aspirations

    In a reversal of traditional gender roles, young women now surpass young men in the importance they place on having a high-paying career or profession.

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