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Research funded by March of Dimes Center for Social Science Research and conducted by the Institute for Women's Policy Research highlights long-term #MarchofDimes #research #IWPR #medicircle #DrRahulGupta https://bit.ly/2sSLd2E https://www.instagram.com/p/B7As1VtJUmF/?igshid=88f9we43s21s

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A 2014 IWPR report said that 4.8 million undergraduate students are raising children. And a 2013 IWPR study showed that more than half of student-parents leave school after 6 years without finishing their degrees.

Over time, the pay gap between men and women has decreased, but it's snail-like progress. According to an estimate by the IWPR, "... if change continues at the same slow pace as it has done for the past 50 years, it will take 44 years — or until 2059 — for women to finally reach pay parity." Women are the primary breadwinners in 40 percent of America's families, so this disparity affects millions of kids and dependent adults as well.

If there were no pay gap, working women and their families would have an additional $447.6 billion in earnings, according to the Institute for Women's Policy Research.

About half of all employees say they are either prohibited or discouraged from discussing compensation, even though they have a legal right to do so. That makes it incredibly difficult for women or other marginalized groups to discover whether they're being unfairly paid less than their colleagues.