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Education Doesn't Solve the Gender Pay Gap

For women in professions that require advanced degrees, such as dentists and physicians, discrepancies in pay are becoming harder to explain.
Source: Michael Conroy / AP

In recent decades, women have been headway in becoming dentists, doctors, and lawyers—professions which require a significant amount of education and postgraduate training. According to some theories, this growing number of women with advanced degrees should help bridge the gender pay gap. And yet, for all three professions, not only does the gender pay gap persist, the differences that can’t be explained by simple

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