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When you factor in paid maternity leave, is there a wage gap?

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When you factor in paid maternity leave, is there a wage gap?
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Similar to the response of your AP Micro teacher -- part (potentially a large part) of the gender wage gap can be accounted for by the differences in the fields and positions that working men and women hold in the workforce. This study < https://www.payscale.com/data/gender-pay-gap> cites that in 2020, women earned 0.81 cents for every dollar earned by a man. When controlling for the type of work of women were doing, their fields and their titles, women earned $0.98 cents for every dollar a man made.