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Gender Wage Gap Persists in 2023

Elise Gould Economic Policy Institute
March 12 is Equal Pay Day. The date represents how far into 2024 women would have to work on top of the hours they worked in 2023 simply to match what men were paid in 2023.

Two Oppenheimers, Two Views of Who Should Control the Bomb

KC Cole Knowable Magazine
A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent Robert Oppenheimer and his brother Frank on diverging paths. For one, the story ended with a mission to bring science to the public.

This Week in People’s History, Mar. 12–18

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Huge pile of abandoned streetcars on the scrap-heap
Who Wrecked the Trains? (in 1949), Forward Ever, Backward Never! (1979), Take Your Blacklist and Shove It! (1954), Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round (1964), Paris Commune and Marx (1884), Terror in Nicaragua (1984), Terror in Arkansas (1899)

Gender Wage Gap Persists in 2023

Elise Gould Economic Policy Institute
March 12 is Equal Pay Day, a reminder that there is still a significant pay gap between men and women in our country. Women are paid roughly 22% less than men on average.

The Radical History of International Women’s Day

Catherine Caruso Bucks County Beacon
As the holiday has become mainstream, University of Pennsylvania Professor Kristen R. Ghodsee says #IWD has grown further away from its “socialist roots” and has “lost any association with its radical past.”