It takes women about 16 months to make the same amount of money as men earn in a calendar year. Today is Equal Pay Day, marking the date when women would have matched men’s pay for 2015. NPR’s Marilyn Geewax speaks with Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson about women’s fight for equal pay, and how things have changed since the observance began in 1996.
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- Marilyn Geewax, senior business editor for NPR. She tweets @geewaxnpr.
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