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Despite strides made in recent decades, gender inequality and discrimination persists. Today, this discrimination takes many forms: unequal pay and economic opportunity, lack of educational equity, gender differences in health insurance coverage, repeated attempts to limit abortion...to list just a few. Gender bias continues to create huge barriers to equalilty for women - and LGBTQ people.