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    :: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 ::

    COMMENT: Time to close gender wage gap BY MARIE C. WILSON, Freep
    Forty years after the Equal Pay Act of 1963, a new government report reveals we're moving backward on wage equality. Studying the years from 1983 through 2000, the nonpartisan congressional General Accounting Office found that the gender wage gap had gotten worse in the 1990s and today is at a historic high.

    American women earn an appalling 44 percent less than men.
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