See if you don’t get the blues, too, after reading these recent news items about women:

1. The gender gap in pay goes on—and on—and on. According to the American Association of University Women (AAUW), the pay gap hasn’t budged much in 10 years, meaning that “in 2012, as in 2002, among full-time, year-round workers, women were paid 77 percent of what men were paid.”