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How Long Will it Take for Your State to Close the Wage Gap? Fortune Points to IWPR for the Answer

March 21, 2017

Fortune // Annalyn Kurtz

The Institute for Women’s Policy Research layered Census data and historical trends to forecast the year in which the wage gap will close in each state. Nationally, the wage gap is not predicted to close until 2059 for the average woman. For black women and Hispanic women, 2124 and 2248 respectively.