Late last week, women across the US received one of their many annual reminders of just how much their work is undervalued.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the annual average weekly earnings for women last year was $1,005, or 83.6% of the $1,202 earned by men. That gap is the smallest on record, up from 83% in 2022, but it has barely moved over the last decade. In 2013, women earned 82.1 cents for every dollar that men earned.