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 9 Ways to Immediately Improve the Gender Wage Gap
  In 2016 women still earn an average of 78% as men. Here are nine things that can be done right now to close the wage gap with the utimate goal of finally achieving pay equality in the workplace.
 
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9 Ways to Immediately Improve the Gender Wage Gap

In 2016 women still earn an average of 78% as men. Here are nine things that can be done right now to close the wage gap with the utimate goal of finally achieving pay equality in the workplace.

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9 Ways to Immediately Improve the Gender Wage Gap

In 2016 women still earn an average of 78% as men. Here are nine things that can be done right now to close the wage gap with the utimate goal of finally achieving pay equality in the workplace.

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The venue accused the tech outlet of “shockingly unethical conduct” while Wired stood by its reporting.

Dmitriy Popov fatally stabbed the gay Black dancer after confronting him and his friends as they vogued at a Brooklyn gas station.

The vice president raised eyebrows after telling Joe Rogan that he can’t “get over” Biden’s penchant for ice cream.

Trump's Secretary of Defense's U.S. military vision is toned, tight, T’d up and deeply weird, writes John Casey.

LGBTQ+ stories deserve to be told.

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Opinion: The president's reheating of conspiracy theories related to voter fraud — with attacks on trans people for good measure — is a clear ploy to undermine democracy, argues Josh Ackley.

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The man had been ejected from Shakey's in Asheville before allegedly opening fire in the parking lot, police said.

The Turning Point USA CEO invoked her late murdered husband while urging young conservatives to confront those she described as enemies.

The stories about the late Republican senator's sexuality may multiply after his death. None of them changes who he chose to be, writes John Casey

When that sun is out, let those buns out with it!