What does the evidence-based research suggest to explain the gender pay gap?
In the United States, full-time women workers earn, on average, 20 percent less than men. In this video, Hannah Riley Bowles, Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management; Co-director, Women and Public Policy Program; Area Chair, Management, Leadership and Decision Sciences Area, lists three things that explains this gender pay gap.
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