If the gender pay gap were eliminated, on average, a Black woman working full-time year-round would have enough money for more than two-and-a-half years of child care, more than two-and-a-half additional years of tuition and fees for a four-year public university, or 22 more months of rent, according to the National Partnership for Women & Families. “The issue of equal pay is not just a woman’s issue because it trickles down into our families and into our communities, and it trickles down into our overall economy,” Williams said. Experts are reflecting on this wage gap on the date known as Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, which comes four months after Equal Pay Day, averaged for all women, reflecting the larger pay gap Black women face. Recovery efforts must reach women in the workforce and create more equitable economic opportunities to close the gap.For Black women, of whom many are the primary breadwinners of their households, the pay gap of 63 cents on the dollar represents more than just a loss of money, said Shannon Williams, the director of Equal Pay Today, a project of Equal Rights Advocates.
A Bipartisan Policy Center survey found that nearly one quarter of these women did so to manage caregiving responsibilities. Since February 2020, more than 2.3 million women have dropped out of the workforce, compared with 1.8 million men. Women bear the brunt of home and caregiving responsibilities.Įconomic crises-like the one we are experiencing with the global pandemic-hit women harder for these reasons.īefore COVID-19, nearly half of all working women-46% or 28 million- worked in jobs paying low wages, with median earnings of only $10.93 per hour.Women are overrepresented in low-wage jobs and underrepresented in higher-wage ones.Women face pervasive gender and racial discrimination.The TIME’S UP Foundation, which is dedicated to safe, fair, and dignified work for women, outlined three main factors driving the pay gap: Latinas are paid 55 cents for every dollar paid to white men. Native women are paid 60 cents for every dollar paid to white men. Native American Women’s Equal Pay Day is September 8.Black women are paid 63 cents for every dollar paid to white men. Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is August 3.Mothers are paid 70 cents for every dollar paid to fathers. Women working full-time, year-round are paid 82 cents for every dollar paid to a man for the same time. All Women’s Equal Pay Day is March 24.
Asian American and Pacific Islander women are paid 85 cents for every dollar paid to white men.
In our community, women are paid 81 cents on the dollar. Women of all races working full-time, year-round earn just 82 cents for every dollar men make, according to the most recent U.S. economy and threaten to widen these gaps. We track the gender pay gap in The Landscape, our community indicator project, and we have prioritized supporting workforce and economic opportunity in our new Community Resilience Fund as COVID-19 and the resulting recession have exacerbated longstanding racial and gender inequities in the U.S. Each year, this disparity is brought to light with Equal Pay Day.Įqual Pay Day shows how far into the new year women must work to earn what men did the previous year. That would have been enough to pay for nearly a year of rent. Nebraska women lost $10,264 to the wage gap last year.
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