“Some of the #MeToo movement definitely would have to do with equal pay and making sure that women get their due in the workplace,” Elise Gould, senior economist at EPI told CNN. The closing of the gap could be due to a multitude of factors, such as women getting higher levels of education and going into fields that were normally dominated by men, but a lot of it has to do with women just advocating for their rights and bringing more awareness to the issue. The good news is that the overall gender wage gap is getting smaller.Ĭompared to women making 60.5% of what men made in 1969, in 2018, women made 82%, according to the American Association of University Women. Native American women: October 1, $0.57.Here’s a list of what women in those other racial groups make compared to white men, and their Equal Pay Day for 2020: And Latina women? They’re on the job into November. Native American women would have to work through the fall. Black women have to keep at it through summer. White women, for instance, still have a month and a half of work to do to catch up. If you break it down into specific Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, the wage gap grows. ![]() Compared to other women of color, Asian American and Pacific Islander women are on the higher end of the wage gap earning on average 92 cents for every dollar earned by men. Overall, women earn 81.6 cents for every dollar that men make, according to the most recent US Census data.īy race, the numbers tell a different story. ![]() We’re three months into 2020 – yet this is how long American women must work into the year to earn the same salary as men did in 2019.Įvery year, the National Committee on Pay Equity sets a date for “Equal Pay Day” to highlight the overall pay disparity between men and women who work full-time in the United States.
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