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.
