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$546 Billion and Counting: Senate Inaction on Paycheck Fairness Continues to Shortchange Women
By Robin Bleiweis
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It’s been one year since the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Paycheck Fairness Act (H.R. 7)—and still the Senate has failed to take action.

According to new CAP analysis, in the one year since the House passed the comprehensive equal pay legislation, women working full time in the United States collectively earned an estimated $546.3 billion less than their male counterparts. On an individual level and in that same period, a full-time working woman earned about $9,585 less than a man on average.

And the numbers for women overall versus men overall only tell part of the story. When broken down by race and ethnicity, the earnings gap was larger for most women of color when compared with white men.

Every day that the Senate and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-AL) fail to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act is a day that they fail working women. And this failure is acutely felt by women in the current moment, who have less money than men with which to care for themselves and their families during the coronavirus pandemic.

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See Also:

*Quick Facts About the Gender Wage Gap <[link removed]>

*What Women Need: An Agenda to Move Women and Families Forward <[link removed]>

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