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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Women in the United States earned only 73 cents for every dollar men were paid in 1999, though the gap narrowed during the 1990s, according to census figures released Tuesday.
Women gained roughly 7 cents on the dollar over the 10-year period, according to the Census Bureau's long form.
The figure does not necessarily mean that women are being paid less than men for doing the same job. Instead, the census looked at earnings in 1999 for full-time workers in all industries and found that...