The Wrong Route to Equality – Men’s Declining Wages

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Awesome article.

http://www.epi.org/publication/wrong-route-equality-mens-declining-wages/

"In the late 1970s, after a long period of holding fairly steady, the gap in wages between men and women began improving. In 1979, the median hourly wage for women was 62.7 percent of the median hourly wage for men; by 2012, it was 82.8 percent. However, a big chunk of that improvement – more than a quarter of it — happened because of men’s wage losses, rather than women’s wage gains."