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Analiese Eicher: Gender pay gap adds to student loan debt crisis for Wisconsin women

April 12 is this year’s national Equal Pay Day — the day when, because of the gender wage gap, women’s pay for the previous year equals men’s. The gender pay gap highlighted today also means greater student loan debt burdens for women. The latest update of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) report, Graduating to a Pay Gap, finds less pay translates into women taking longer to pay off student loan debt.