Experts will discuss historic pay inequity in low-wage jobs, the devaluing of women’s work, new opportunities for higher wage jobs, and policies to increase employer accountability and transparency. Join NYS Attorney General Letitia James and PowHerTM New York to explore the progress made to-date and the new challenges ahead for women’s economic stability. How can New York support women’s equitable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and create long lasting change? Roads to Women’s Economic Recovery and Future Join PowHerNY in calling for long lasting change and inclusive gender justice for all by attending our events throughout the day and making your voice heard on social media. This year we are gathering virtually to envision an equitable recovery that supports all New York women and families who have been impacted this past year, especially those of color. Women and families across the state were left more vulnerable to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic because of the wage gap. CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.Join PowHerNY for their 15th Annual Equal Pay Day celebration! Market holidays and trading hours provided by Copp Clark Limited. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account “if we’re really serious about making sure that women, particularly women of color are earning the money that they deserve, then we need to make sure that we’re making our voices heard this (election) year.”
“If women could be making what they should be making, what their male counterparts are making, the economy would be doing much better,” Williams said. While the gender wage gap is definitely closing in, Williams believes there’s still a lot to be done, especially on the legislative front, such as passing the Paycheck Fairness Act.īecause “when women do well, everybody does well,” Williams said.
“Some of the #MeToo movement definitely would have to do with equal pay and making sure that women get their due in the workplace,” Elise Gould, senior economist at EPI told CNN. The closing of the gap could be due to a multitude of factors, such as women getting higher levels of education and going into fields that were normally dominated by men, but a lot of it has to do with women just advocating for their rights and bringing more awareness to the issue. The good news is that the overall gender wage gap is getting smaller.Ĭompared to women making 60.5% of what men made in 1969, in 2018, women made 82%, according to the American Association of University Women. Native American women: October 1, $0.57.
Here’s a list of what women in those other racial groups make compared to white men, and their Equal Pay Day for 2020: 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.
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