Today is Native Women’s Equal Pay Day and this is your call to action!
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Friend,

The shutdown may have ended, but the impact it made on families is still
very real. While leaders may claim business-as-usual, we know better. We
know who felt the ripple effects the most: caregivers, essential workers,
moms, and women. 

Specifically, Native American women, who have carried the weight of it,
and are now helping communities get back on their feet. [ [link removed] ]Today is Native
Women’s Equal Pay Day and a moment to acknowledge one of the widest pay
disparities they face and the long recovery road ahead post-shutdown.

Native women are and have always been on the frontlines of our country’s
economic struggles. So when events like a government shutdown happen and
programs like SNAP and healthcare benefits are cut, it’s Native women who
feel the impact the most. It may take some Native families years to recoup
lost earnings and regain financial stability compared to families that
earn more simply because of their racial identity and sex. 

Here are the facts: 

* On average, Native women earn only 58 cents for every $1 paid to white
men working part-time, full-time, and part year. [ [link removed] ][1]
* About 64 percent of Native moms are their family breadwinners and they
earn just 41 cents paid to the dollar of a white man. [ [link removed] ][2]
* Native women with a professional degree stand to lose nearly $3
million to the wage gap over a 40-year career. 
* Native women with a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, or doctorate
degree stand to lose over $1.3 million to the wage gap over a 40-year
career. [ [link removed] ][3] 

Overall, Native American women lose almost $63.5 billion to the wage gap
every year. And because Native identity is deeply rooted in culture,
community, and ancestry, it's critical to honor its complexity, rather
than simplify it into a single category. Meaning, the wage gaps only widen
as the data disaggregates into the hundreds of Native tribes.

It’s not just Native Women’s Equal Pay Day, though; it’s also National
Native American Heritage Month. A time for us to remember and honor who
Native American women were and still are; leaders, providers, and
protectors. Women who, despite forced displacement, genocide, sexual
violence, abuse, and exclusion from land and labor rights, still manage
entire communities and families. Native women cannot be erased, regardless
of what history may have sold us. They are here, more resilient than ever,
yet still underpaid and undervalued for their labor. 

[ [link removed] ]→ This Native Women’s Equal Pay and we urge the Republican Congress to
stop playing politics with our health care and get to work serving the
American people. They need to act immediately to lessen the financial
burden of unequal wages that leave Native women and their families
struggling to make ends meet.

So today is a call to action. As Native women continue to carry families
and communities through the residual effects of the recent government
shutdown, food scarcity and health care crisis, it is up to all of us to
ensure their work and contributions are recognized and their pay is fair. 

[ [link removed] ]SIGN ON to tell Congress to act immediately to lessen the financial
burden of unequal wages that leave Native women and their families
struggling to make ends meet.

Thank you,

Diarra, LeAnne, Ruth, Kristin, and the whole MomsRising.org &
MamásConPoder Team

P.S.– Have you or someone you love faced workplace discrimination or
unfair pay? Sharing personal stories with our lawmakers is a powerful tool
in the fight against discriminatory wage gaps! [ [link removed] ]Tell us about your
experience!

References:
[1] “[ [link removed] ]Native Women’s Equal Pay Day”
[2] “[ [link removed] ]Native American Women and the Wage Gap”
[3] “[ [link removed] ]Native Women Lose More Than $1.2 Million to the Racist and Sexist
Wage Gap Over a 40-Year Career”


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