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This Equal Pay Day, women face additional burdens due to the pandemic

by Kimberly Adams

Mar 24, 2021

Their pay gap with men tightened slightly, but mainly because so many women lost low-paying jobs early on.

"We know, going into the pandemic, that women of color actually owned pennies on the dollar compared to white men and white women," said Heather McCulloch who runs Closing the Women’s Wealth Gap.

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