With paid family and medical leave and affordable child care, women are more likely to stay in the workforce and earn higher pay, according to the study.
Women earned roughly half the income of men in the United States over a 15-year period, taking into account time off for family or child care, according to a report released on Wednesday, which found the pay gap is far greater than has commonly been assumed.
In an examination of women's income from 2001 to 2015, the Washington-based Institute for Women's Policy Research found that women's income was 51 percent less than men's earnings, which includes time with no income.
"Much ink has been spilled debating whether the commonly cited measure of the wage gap - that women earn 80 cents for every dollar earned by a man - is an exaggeration due to occupational differences or so-called 'women's choices'," Heidi Hartmann, president of the institute and a co-author of the study, said in a statement.
"But our analysis finds that we have actually been underestimating the extent of pay inequality in the labor market," Hartmann said.
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