BLACK WOMEN EQUAL PAY DAY FULL

BLACK WOMEN EQUAL PAY DAY FULL

(For Native American and Latina women, that date is even later.)Īccording to a 2021 analysis by the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) of recent labor data, the wage gap between Black women who are full-time, year-round workers and their white, non-Hispanic, male counterparts adds up to “a staggering loss of $964,400 over a 40-year career.” The $409,040 gap between what a Black woman and a white woman working full time will make over a lifetime seem small by comparison. To mark that fact, Black Women’s Equal Pay Day in 2021 falls this Tuesday. She’d have to work a bit less, but still more than a year, to take home what a white woman makes. would have to work longer than 19 months to earn what a white man does in 12. Today, five decades after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of equal pay, the average Black woman in the U.S. labor force in the early 1970s, and for the 60.5% of Black women who worked in 2019, that dynamic has shaped and influenced almost every facet of their lives. And yet descriptions of the case typically do not address a core factor that shapes wage inequality in the U.S.: race, and the way it interacts with gender.įor the 44.7% of Black women who were part of the U.S. Paying women differently violates the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and elements of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. People doing essentially the same work should receive the same pay. The case established a core principle in pay equity.

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