Closing the gender pay gap has stalled. A new study reveals why

Women have historically been paid less than men. But in the US in the 1980s, they began to catch up — fast. During that decade, the gender pay gap closed by about one percentage point a year. Had that trend continued, a new study finds, the gender wage gap would have reached parity by 2017.

But the trend didn’t continue, and the gap still hasn’t closed. READ MORE