--- title: Five Best Ideas: How To Close the Gender Pay Gap in 27 Years description: How to close the gender pay gap in 27 years, how to end child marriage and more. canonical: https://time.com/4695041/how-to-close-the-gender-pay-gap-in-27-years/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-08T17:00:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:01.018Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How To Close the Gender Pay Gap in 27 Years og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4695041/how-to-close-the-gender-pay-gap-in-27-years/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How To Close the Gender Pay Gap in 27 Years twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How To Close the Gender Pay Gap in 27 Years by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 8, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 8, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s how to close the gender pay gap — in 27 years.**](http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/07/pf/gender-pay-gap/) By Kathryn Vasel in _CNN_ **2\.** [**We can end child marriage. This is how.**](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/blueprint-to-end-child-marriage-by-sajeda-amin-et-al-2017-03) By Sajeda Amin, M Niaz Asadullah, Sara Hossain, and Zaki Wahhaj in _Project Syndicate_ **3\.** [**Once this chatbot helped people beat parking fines. Now it’s helping refugees seek asylum.**](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/06/chatbot-donotpay-refugees-claim-asylum-legal-aid) By Elena Cresci in the _Guardian_ **4\.** [**What’s the secret to unlocking diversity in tech? White women.**](http://www.recode.net/2017/3/6/14833504/white-women-tech-work-silicon-valley-privilege-diversity) By Aubrey Blanche in _Recode_ **5\.** [**If the battle against terrorism is a war, will we be at war forever?**](http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/03/09/must-it-always-be-wartime/) By Kenneth Roth in the _New York Review of Books_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4695041/how-to-close-the-gender-pay-gap-in-27-years/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4695041/how-to-close-the-gender-pay-gap-in-27-years/"},"headline":"How To Close the Gender Pay Gap in 27 Years","datePublished":"2017-03-08T17:00:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:01.018Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4695041/how-to-close-the-gender-pay-gap-in-27-years/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Terrorism","Refugees","Diversity","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/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4695041/how-to-close-the-gender-pay-gap-in-27-years/","name":"How To Close the Gender Pay Gap in 27 Years"}}]}] ```