These gender and racial discrepancies are harmful examples of the ways our society undervalues women and communities of color. The total wage differences between men and women on average is more than $799 billion every single year.
In an even bigger picture, some reports have estimated that women earn over 400,000 dollars less than their male counterparts do over the course of a 40-year period. This difference in median earnings varied by states with states and territories like Wyoming, Washington, D.C., and Utah having gendered wage disparities of more than $15,000. A recent study found that in 2021 the difference in median earnings nationally found that in U.S workers employed full-time last year women earned $10,000 less. Meaning that Native and Latina women have to work over two years just to earn what a white man earns in one.Ĭents on the dollar can seem abstract. Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is in September marking the 63 cents they earn in comparison to white male counterparts.īoth Native and Latina equal paydays are in December with Native women earning 60 cents on the dollar and Latina women earning 57 cents. June and July have LGBTQIA+ and Moms Equal Pay Days respectively. May is AAPI Women’s Equal Pay Day, marking the 85 cents Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander women earn for every dollar a white man does. Therefore we mark multiple ‘equal pay’ days throughout the year to raise awareness for the persistent gender and racial income gaps that have become the norm. Women are not a monolith, a woman’s race, assigned gender at birth, ability, or sexuality can widen the gap.
This year Equal Pay Day is March 15 th, symbolizing how far into the year women have to work to earn what men earned the year before.
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