The gender gap in pay has slightly narrowed in the United States over the past 20 years or so. In 2024, women earned an average of 85% of what men earned, according to a Pew Research Center analysis ...

Women in the U.S. typically earned 85% as much as men for every hour they spent working in 2024.

Certain myths in the public sphere persist, no matter how many times they have been debunked. One of the most enduring in modern life is the myth of the so-called wage gap. Recent "sky is falling" ...