--- --- # How the Gender Pay Gap Widens Over Time by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 6, 2015 5:08 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 6, 2015 5:08 PM UTC **1\.** [**Watch the gender pay gap start small, then explode over time.**](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-05/how-the-pay-gap-between-men-and-women-starts-small-and-gets-so-much-bigger) By Jeanna Smialek in Bloomberg Businessweek **2\.** [**You can now look up emergency room wait times, hospital noise and more on Yelp.**](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/08/05/coming-to-yelp-a-bigger-dose-of-data-on-health-care-facilities/) By Lena H. Sun in the Washington Post **3\.** [**Under pressure, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood might be growing even more extreme.**](http://carnegieendowment.org/2015/07/29/unprecedented-pressures-uncharted-course-for-egypt-s-muslim-brotherhood/ie2g) By Nathan Brown and Michele Dunne at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace **4\.** [**Do we know how to help teachers get better? Unfortunately, no.**](http://tntp.org/blog/post/do-we-know-how-to-help-teachers-get-better) By Dan Weisberg at TNTP **5\.** [**Never mind Iran and North Korea. Here’s where the real nuclear danger lies.**](http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/8/4/the-real-nuclear-danger-doesnt-come-from-iran-or-north-korea.html) By Joe Cirincione in Al Jazeera America  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Equal Pay: How the Gender Pay Gap Widens Over Time ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3987154/gender-pay-gap/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3987154/gender-pay-gap/"},"headline":"How the Gender Pay Gap Widens Over Time","datePublished":"2015-08-06T17:08:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:08.909Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3987154/gender-pay-gap/","keywords":["Innovation","Nuclear Weapons","Egypt","Teachers","hospital","pay gap"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3987154/gender-pay-gap/","name":"How the Gender Pay Gap Widens Over Time"}}]}] ```