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Mothers Make 71.4 Percent of What Fathers Make, IWPR Finds

May 23, 2017

IWPR // Emma Williams-Baron, Julie Anderson, Ariane Hegewisch

Today is Mom's Equal Pay Day - the day that mothers must work until in 2017 to earn what fathers made in 2016 alone. This amounts to a wage ratio of 71.4 percent. Mothers' median earnings are significantly lower than fathers' reagrdless of marital status, IWPR reports. 

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