Women Are Closing the Wage Gap. Ever. So. Slowly.

The wage gap has been a thing—an unfortunate, unfair thing—for a long time, but many Americans don't believe in its existence. Believe it, because women earned 83% of what men did in 2015, according to a new analysis by The Pew Research Center of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Pew studied the earnings of full- and part-time workers in the United States, broken down across gender and race.