Chart: Women would be the main beneficiaries of increasing the minimum wage: Gender of workers affected by increasing the federal minimum wage to $12 by 2020 | Economic Policy Institute

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Women would be the main beneficiaries of increasing the minimum wage: Gender of workers affected by increasing the federal minimum wage to $12 by 2020

Gender	Share
Women	55.9%
Men	44.1%

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Source: Adapted from Cooper (2015)

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