Black Women : Today – August 22 – is the day Black women’s wages finally catch up

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Today – August 22 – is the day Black women’s wages finally catch up

Today – August 22 – is the day Black women’s wages finally catch up

The wage gap between women and men in the United States is persistent and unacceptable. Women in the United States today still make $500,000 to $1.2 million dollars less than their male co-workers over the course of their lifetimes. On average, women make only 80 cents for every dollar a man...

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Unfortunately, April’s Equal Pay Day tells an incomplete story because it looks at women in general. When you disaggregate for race, we can see that the disparity is even greater for women of color, who are paid significantly less than their white counterparts, the truth is that Black women only make 61 cents and Latinas only 53 cents for each dollar made by a white man.



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