Urge Congress to take a multifaceted approach to closing the wage gap
immediately!
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Dear Friend,
Today is Equal Pay Day for women across the country. We use this day to
highlight the persistent pay gap by marking how far into the year women of
all races and ethnicities combined, on average, must work to earn what men
earned in the previous year. [ [link removed] ] This is NOT okay, Today is NOT a
celebration.
[1]*Sign our petition urging Congress to take a multifaceted approach to
closing the wage gap immediately!
It’s nothing short of outrageous that right now, today, on average women,
working full-time, year round, earn just 84 cents to a man's dollar. When
you factor in part-time, seasonal, & gig work that number drops to just 77
cents! But, those stats don’t even tell the whole story, so let’s break it
down.
On average this is the breakout for what women earn compared to white men.
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* Latinas earn 57 cents,
* Native American women earn 57 cents,
* Black women earn 67 cents,
* White women earn 80 cents,
* Asian-American and Pacific Islander women earn 92 cents on average
(with some AAPI subgroups experiencing gaps as big as 50 cents to a
man’s dollar),
* Women with disabilities earn just 84 cents for every dollar earned by
their male counterparts with disabilities,
* And last but not least, moms earn just 74 cents on the dollar to dads
– with moms of color experiencing compounded wage gaps due to
structural racism to the extent that Latina moms earn just 47 cents to
a white dad’s dollar and Black moms earn just 52 cents to a white
dad’s dollar (and as with AAPI women, when the data for moms is
disaggregated, the numbers are worse for single moms). [2]This has GOT
to change. It doesn’t have to be this way.
There’s a pattern in all those stats and a wake-up call in the numbers
that can’t be ignored:
Gender justice, racial justice, and economic justice are tied together --
and one never happens without the others. It’s time for us to raise our
voices.
The fact that we are highlighting this grievous miscarriage of justice
mid-way through our celebration of Women’s History Month, is not lost on
us. That is why we need strong, common sense policy solutions to achieve
pay equity for women, like [ [link removed] ]:
* Comprehensive equal pay laws so that women are better able to discover
and fight back against pay discrimination.
* Pay transparency policies.
* Raised wage minimums and elimination of the tipped minimum wage.
* Access to high-quality, affordable child care.
* Comprehensive federal paid family and medical leave policy.
* Healthcare for all.
* Restored and expanded access to safe and affordable abortion care.
In good news, solutions to end wage discrimination are possible. Studies
show that passing the policies listed above helps close the wage gaps.
The time to pass them is yesterday.
[3]Friend, stand with us and urge Congress to take a multifaceted
approach to closing the wage gap ASAP!
The wage gap robs women of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of dollars over the
course of a lifetime [ [link removed] ]. This is life-changing money that would help lift
women and families out of poverty; help women save more for retirement;
help women start small businesses; and boost our economy.
Life. Changing. Money.
We’ll keep fighting until we achieve pay equity. Until then, we’ll keep
using this Equal Pay Day, and all the other Equal Pay Days on the calendar
as rallying cries to work together to close the wage gap.
Together we’re a powerful force for women and families.
-Taylor, Ruth, Kristin and the entire MomsRising.org / MamásConPoder.org
team
P.S. Have you been hearing about all the pay transparency laws cropping up
in states across the country? We’d love to hear from you – what would it
mean to have pay transparency at your job? In your state? [4]Share your
thoughts with us here!
References:
[1] [ [link removed] ]How to Make the Wage Gap an Injustice of the Past – AAUW
[2] [3] [ [link removed] ]A Window Into the Wage Gap: What’s Behind it and How to Close
it
[4] [ [link removed] ]The Wage Gap Robs Women Working Full Time, Year Round of Hundreds
of Thousands of Dollars Over a Lifetime
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