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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

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Naomi Wolf
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
Activist
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San Francisco County
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Naomi R. Wolf
Naomi Rebekah Wolf
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