US gender pay gap shrank more in the 1980s than later on

U.S. women earn less than men per hour they spend working. This gender pay gap is getting smaller but progress has been slow in recent years.

Area chart showing that a trend changed after 1990
When men and women are paid equally, women would earn 100% of what men earn. Until then, there will be a gender pay gap.
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