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THE pay gap between men and women is set to vanish within 14 years among the professional classes, according to an analysis of the US workplace.
Women will, on average, earn more than men in careers such as law, medicine and academia by 2024, said Maddy Dychtwald, an expert on demographics.
In a new book, Influence, based on US government statistics, she said women in more than a third of professional dual-income households in the US were making more than their husbands, up from just over a quarter five years ago.
If this trend continued, women in middle-income jobs such as teaching, healthcare and the arts would start overtaking men shortly after 2024.
The predictions mark a break with official estimates at the start of the century, which suggested the pay gap would persist for another 40 years.
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