Wage Gap In Spotlight On Equal Pay Day

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By Kathryn Vasel, CNN Business
(CNN) — April 2 is Equal Pay Day, which symbolically marks how much longer into the year women would have to work in order to earn as much as men did the previous year.
Among all full-time workers, the average woman made about 80 cents for every dollar a man made in 2017, according to the latest Census Bureau data. The gap is even wider for black and Hispanic women.
But, in some industries, the gap narrows when comparing the