Yes, some of the disheartening statistics still persist: women make only 77 cents to the dollar for equal work, the pay gap is widest and most atrocious for women of color, and the damage stacks up incredibly over the length of our lifetimes.

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The troubling point highlighted in the report is that this wage gap persists 50 years after the Equal Pay Act was passed.

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The FAO found that if resources were equalized, if male and female farmers could have equal access to resources, if that gender gap were closed, the productivity of farmers would be 20-30 percent higher and the output would feed 150 million more people.

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In countries ranging from Brazil to Switzerland, women have closed the gap and new businesses are being built in equal numbers by both genders.

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One way to demonstrate this is to remember that the gap between domestic saving and investment must be equal to the current-account balance, which is probably measured more accurately.

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Taking advantage of this, China Unicom has been closing the 3G gap with China Mobile by adding at least an equal number of 3G subscribers every month.

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Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Act into law at the beginning of his last term, but the gap has actually widened a bit since then while complaints filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission fell.

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However, the gap in reading scores not only remained, but got bigger as the sexes became more equal.

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To mark Equal Pay Day yesterday, the Department of Labor released a set of reports on the gender pay gap and what the Administration has done to address it.

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