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- On Equal Pay Day, March 26, 2026, the gender pay gap widened to 81 cents per dollar for women, down from 83 cents last year.
- This marks the second consecutive year of a wider gap and the first back-to-back increase since the 1960s.
- Advocates, including Deborah Vagins of the Equal Pay Today coalition, call for federal pay transparency laws to address these disparities.
