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men earn. Using a longitudinal data set, Economists Heidi Hartmann and Stephen Rose found that during the years 2001 to 2915, women faced a 51 percent wage gap. Also, while the gender wage gap has narrowed since 1968, progress has been slow in the last 15 years. The study was released Nov. 28, 2018. Earlier 15-year studies found that women earned just 19 percent and 38 percent of what men earned, (H.R.6030), introduced by Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC-At-Large) on Sept. 14, 2016, amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit employers from seeking or requiring previous wage information or salary history from job applicants. The persistence of the gender wage gap is shown by data released by the Census Bureau on Sept. 12, 2018. In 2017, the median salaries for all full-time, year-round workers showed women STILL EARNING 80.5 CENTS FOR EVERY DOLLAR MEN EARNED, EXACTLY THE SAME GAP AS IN 2016. The median salaries of all full-time, year-round workers showed women earning $41,977 compared to $52,146 for men in 2017. The wage gaps continue to be greater for women of color, whose wages dropped even more compared to those of white men between 2016 and 2017. African American women earned just 61 cents and Hispanic women earned just 53 cents for every dollar white men earned, compared to 63 and 54 cents respectively in 2016. As*an American women earned 85 cents and white women 77 cents for every dollar white men earned, compared to 87 and 79 cents respectively in 2016. American Indian and Alaska Native women earned 58 cents and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander women made 62 cents for every dollar white men earned in 2017. the gap increasing as women earn more. The loss in lifetime earnings is $530,000 for the average woman and $800,000 for college-educated women. About 30 percent of the narrowing of the wage gap since 1979 was caused by the decline in men’s wages. The gender wage gap figure used by the National Committee on Pay Equity has been coming under fire as being politically motivated, at