Although a United States Senate bill that would narrow the gender pay gap was derailed in the US Congress this week, The WIP took full advantage of Tuesday's national Equal Pay Day. We launched our own "Gender Pay Gap" page which highlights articles that we have published over the years exploring the impact of unequal pay worldwide. Also this week, US television network CBS announced "The Late Show" with David Letterman will be taken over by Stephen Colbert next year causing The WIP to wonder, are these two issues related? Does the exclusion of women and minorities from late-night comedy shows - which are held in much higher esteem than their daytime counterparts - reinforce the stereotype that women and minorities are worth-less?

Equal Pay UK: Why Some Are Paid More Than Others
by Meghan Lewis, UK - In the same week that Ramesh Ponnuru, Senior Editor for the National Review, said that "The pay gap is exaggerated, discrimination doesn't drive it and it's not clear that government can eliminate it - or should even try," a friend of mine found out that she was being paid less than her male colleague who did exactly the same job...
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Why U.S. Women Earn So Little Money: the Wage Gap Isn't Getting Any Better
by Ellen Bravo, USA - The best researchers in the United States gathered recently to solve a long-standing puzzle: why women in the richest country in the world earn so little money. Using sophisticated multiple regression analyses and other scientific tools, the researchers finally came up with the answer...
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Equal Pay UK: Why Some Are Paid More Than Others
by Meghan Lewis, UK - In the same week that Ramesh Ponnuru, Senior Editor for the National Review, said that "The pay gap is exaggerated, discrimination doesn't drive it and it's not clear that government can eliminate it - or should even try," a friend of mine found out that she was being paid less than her male colleague who did exactly the same job...
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Why U.S. Women Earn So Little Money: the Wage Gap Isn't Getting Any Better
by Ellen Bravo, USA - The best researchers in the United States gathered recently to solve a long-standing puzzle: why women in the richest country in the world earn so little money. Using sophisticated multiple regression analyses and other scientific tools, the researchers finally came up with the answer...
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