Part-time work today has a particular predatory logic, shifting economic risk from employers to employees.
The real, inflation-adjusted data show most U.S. workers have not benefited from the growing economy.
The wage gap between men and women in the U.S. shrunk drastically in the 1980s and early 1990s, as women joined the workforce in increasing numbers and earned degrees at higher rates, but the gap has remained relatively stagnant since the mid- to late 1990s. There's one major detriment to financial equality that women can't seem to shake: motherhood.
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