Women Earn 51% Less Than Men Over 15-Year Time Span, Study Shows

The wage gap for women is typically reported at around 80 cents for every dollar earned by men, but a new study argues it is even larger when measured over the long-term.

Women’s earnings were just 49 percent of men’s earnings -- or a 51 percent wage gap -- when measured by total earnings over 15 years for all those who worked in at least one year, according to a study by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research released Wednesday.