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Gender-Based Wage Gap

A ‘concrete ceiling:’ Discussing barriers to women of color in the workplace, how to overcome them

By • May 8, 2017
Nicole Roach and Lorie Jackson discussed the barriers women of color face in the workplace - and how to overcome them - on Monday's St. Louis on the Air.
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Women of color will make up the majority of the female population in the United States by 2050 and yet they often face disproportionate barriers in the workplace, healthcare, educational attainment and other areas of life.

New Data: Missouri Women's Earnings Are 78 Percent Of Men's

By • Jan 23, 2015
New numbers show Missouri's women who worked full-time earned about 78 percent of men's earnings in 2013.
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New numbers show women working full-time in Missouri made 78.1 percent of what men did in 2013.

According to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Show-Me State's women earned a median wage of $665 per week, compared to men's $852 in 2013. The state's women's-to-men's earnings ratio dropped slightly from 2012.

Durbin Pushes Bill To Discourage Discrimination, Pay Inequality For Women

By • Apr 8, 2014

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois is joining President Barack Obama and fellow Democrats in an election-year push to bridge the pay gap between men and women.

Speaking on the Senate Floor Tuesday, Durbin called on his Republican colleagues to help pass the Paycheck Fairness Act.

“It says that women cannot be discriminated in the workplace simply because they are women,” he said.

St. Louis Area's Gender-Based Wage Gap Ranked 5th Worst

By • Apr 9, 2013
New numbers show Missouri's women who worked full-time earned about 78 percent of men's earnings in 2013.
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Only four other metropolitan areas in the United States have bigger gender-based wage gaps than St. Louis. 

That's according to rankings out from the National Partnership for Women & Families.

Here's how wages between men and women in the "top 5" metropolitan areas in the rankings shake out:

1. Seattle: $0.27 wage gap

2. Pittsburgh: $0.27 wage gap