This reason for the City of Seattle's gender wage gap may surprise you




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Summary: April 11 was a rather unfortunate holiday: Equal Pay Day. It's the day when a woman's salary catches up to what the average man earned in the previous calendar year. That amount of time is pretty reliably 15-16 months to a man's 12, and there are some surprising reasons for why the numbers have been so stubborn, says David Kroman in a piece for Crosscut .