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Gender pay gap grows as wages of women backslide

The wages of women are backsliding. They’re not keeping pace with what men earn on average, and at the same time, women are increasingly leaving the workforce.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Kathryn Anne Edwards, a labor economist and co-host of the Optimist Economy podcast.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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