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Women’s pay was starting to catch up. Now progress has stopped.

Women in 2022 made 82 percent of men’s pay. Researchers say the steps that improved women’s earnings in the ’80s and ’90s have largely been exhausted.

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March 1, 2023 at 5:21 p.m. EST
Megan Rapinoe of the U.S. women's national soccer team at an online House Oversight Committee hearing on March 24, 2021. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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The gender pay gap has hit a glass ceiling of its own.

The long-standing pay disparity between the genders has barely improved in the past 20 years, a new analysis from Pew Research shows, raising difficult questions about why women’s recent gains in higher education and workplace opportunities haven’t put them on more equal financial footing.