![]() ![]() We broke down what you need to know this Equal Pay Day, including how women's pay stacks up to their male counterparts in Columbus and the nation. In 2023, women make 84 cents for every dollar a white, non-Hispanic man made, according to Equal Pay Today. In 2021, full-time, year-round female employees were estimated to need 38 years, to 2059, and all women were estimated to need 33 years, to 2054, according to the institute.Īdvice on advocating for equal pay: An Ohio State professor fought for equal pay and won. The institute estimates that it will take decades for women workers to reach pay equity with men. Though the pay gap is narrowing, it's happening slowly. I'd already be one.The gender pay gap affects women of all races, nationalities, sexual orientations, gender expressions and lifestyles.Įqual Pay Day is March 14 this year, showing how far into the next year women in the United States have to work to earn what men did in the previous calendar year, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Let me ask you, if you were a white male, would you wish to be an engineer? ![]() ![]() I think we can say we are living the impossible. Now I'm standing beneath a spaceship that's going to carry an astronaut to the stars. Zielinski : And I'm a Polish Jew whose parents died in a Nazi prison camp. You can't be a computer the rest of your life. Karl Zielinski : Mary, a person with an engineer's mind should be an engineer. And, before they wrote the computer code, they were smart enough to do the arithmetic behind the math to find the answers ahead of the computers. The motion picture "Hidden Figures" helps remind us that black women, in the face of the numbing segregation of opportunity, were optimistic, educated and skilled enough to write the computer code that literally launched America into the space age. This makes the fight for $15 an hour a union essential to achieving equal pay for black women. And black workers are more likely to live in states where the minimum wage is still at the federal floor of only $7.25 an hour. Black women are disproportionately affected by the lower wages that characterize care work. The report by IWPR is in coalition with the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Raising the minimum wage is another key element. So fighting discrimination in promotions and guaranteeing the freedom of every worker to negotiate a fair return on their labor is the best way to finally eliminate Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. This is confirmed in a report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, by Asha DuMonthier, Chandra Childers and Jessica Milli, which looks at the employment and earnings, work and family, and poverty and opportunity of black women, among other things. This hurts black women directly, holding down their wages and limiting access to important benefits like employer-provided health care and pensions. Today, they threaten solidarity and starve unions of precious resources. These laws originally were designed to divide black and white workers in the Jim Crow South. Instead, systemic barriers are preventing too many black women from turning their education into earnings, including a refusal of many companies to promote black women into management.Īnother part of the problem is that black workers are far more likely to live in states that enact laws that undermine our freedom to come together and negotiate on the job. The problem for black women is neither work ethic nor educational achievement. This, of course, ignores the fact that a higher share of black women are employed than any other racial group.īlack women also are significantly more likely to pursue postsecondary education than their counterparts in other racial groups. Undoubtedly, those fighting to preserve the status quo will say black women need only to get off welfare, work harder and gain more skills to achieve equal pay. ![]()
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