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The Power of Pay Equity: Investing in Native Women - A Conversation about Native Women's Equal Pay Day

Join an intimate conversation with Gina Jackson (Western Shoshone and Oglala), Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Return to Heart Foundation and Allie Young (Diné), Director and Founder of Protect the Sacred, moderated by Deborah J. Vagins, National Campaign Director and Director of Equal Pay Today with Equal Rights Advocates.

On November 30, 2023, we will be marking Native Women’s Equal Pay Day. This year, Equal Pay Today, Return to the Heart Foundation, Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women Protect, Protect the Sacred, and Native Women Lead, along with many organizations and activists across the country, will be taking collective action in a national social media storm at 2pm ET/11am PT on November 30.

On this day, we are raising awareness and shining a light on the fact that Native American women working full-time year round only make, on average, 59 cents on the dollar as compared to non-Hispanic, white men. Worse still, when you look at all Native women earners, they only make 55 cents in comparison to all non-Hispanic, white male earners, one of the most significant wage disparities in the United States. If you break it down by Tribal nation, some Native American women are paid even less.