A 2018 study by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) reported even more dire news: Looking back over a fifteen-year span, the IWPR observed that when you take into account women’s breaks from full-time work, the wage gap widens to forty-nine cents to the typical men’s dollar, significantly less than the eighty cents usually calculated using a single year of census data.5 The report found that women who take just one year off make 39 percent less than women who stayed in the workforce for the full fifteen years.
