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Kay Steiger blogs about this EPI chart showing the substantial gap in wages for male and female recent college graduates. The good news, though, is that thanks to deteriorating male wages, the gap is narrowing . . . if we just continue our 21st century economic trajectory, college educated man and college educated woman alike can be equal in penury."}],"editorialProject":null,"primaryCategory":{"__typename":"Channel","displayName":"Politics","url":"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/","slug":"politics"},"reviews":[],"embeds":[],"authors":[{"id":"Author:729","displayName":"Matthew Yglesias","url":"https://www.theatlantic.com/author/matthew-yglesias/","biography":{"default":"Matthew Yglesias is a former writer and editor at The Atlantic.","__typename":"Biography"},"socialMedia":[],"__typename":"Author","slug":"matthew-yglesias"}],"preview":null,"layout":"standard","secondaryByline":"","dek":"","url":"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/05/wage-gap/44849/","title":"Wage Gap","seoTitle":"Wage Gap","dateModified":"2010-05-03T20:18:59Z","datePublished":"2008-05-14T19:25:40Z","hasMeter":true,"primaryChannel":{"displayName":"Politics","__typename":"Channel","slug":"politics"},"shareImage1x1":null,"shareImage16x9":null,"shareImage4x3":null,"shareImageDefault":null,"shareImageSquareDefault":null,"shareImageLeadArt":null,"shareDek":"","shareText":null,"shareTitle":"Wage Gap","editorsNote":null,"leadArt":null,"narratedAudio":null,"narratedAudioImage":null,"fbiaUrl":"https://www.theatlantic.com/facebook-instant/article/44849/","canonicalUrl":"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/05/wage-gap/44849/","syndication":"ALL","shareImage2x1":null,"shareImageSmall":null,"channels":[{"slug":"politics","__typename":"Channel"}],"watsonInfo":{"keywords":["college educated woman","recent college graduates","century economic trajectory","substantial gap","Kay Steiger","EPI chart","male wages","good news"],"__typename":"WatsonInfo"},"slug":"wage-gap","grapeshot":{"segments":["gv_safe","gb_safe","pos_bofa-kwlist","pos_lexus_fy23","pos_safe_core","pos_safe_strict","gs_edu","gs_education","gs_edu_college","gs_business","gs_education_university","gs_perscelebrations_graduatn","gs_perscelebrations","gs_event_graduation","gs_tech_compute_net_social"],"__typename":"Grapeshot"},"advertisingInfo":{"disableHouseAd":false,"__typename":"AdvertisingInfo"}}}

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