What's Wage Got To Do With It? Take Our Quiz On The Gender Wage Gap

By Lauren Klenda HERWriter

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A lot of women don't know what the wage gap is. In fact, a lot of women have no idea that they make less money than men.

April 14, 2015, is Equal Pay Day. The date represents how far into the following year women must work to make the same amount of money that males made the year before.

So how much do you know about the gender pay gap? Take our quiz to find out!

Sources:

AAUW. The Simple Truth About the Gender Pay Gap (2015). Retrieved April 13, 2015.
http://www.aauw.org/research/the-simple-truth-about-the-gender-pay-gap

NPR. 50 Years After the Equal Pay Act, Gender Wage Gap Endures. Retrieved April 13,2015.
http://www.npr.org/2013/06/10/189280329/50-years-after-the-equal-pay-act...

CNN Money. 78 cents on the dollar: the facts about the gender wage gap. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/13/news/economy/equal-pay-day-2015/

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