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Why Women’s Equal Pay Day is just the beginning
This article was originally published in the Claim Yours newsletter. You can read it for free here.
The data in this article was provided by the American Association of University Women in this article. Note that Women’s Equal Pay Days are recalculated each year based on the previous year’s data.
Women’s Equal Pay Day
As you may have heard, yesterday was Women’s Equal Pay Day. That’s because women who worked in 2022 in the U.S. had to keep working all the way through March 14, 2023 to earn what men made in 2022.
I don’t know about you, but I sure could’ve used an extra two-and-a-half month’s salary last year!
In 2022, women working full-time in the U.S. earned just 84 cents for every dollar men made. And when you take into account part-time and seasonal workers, that number drops to 77 cents.
But, as I’m sure you’ve guessed, Women’s Equal Pay Day is just the beginning of the story.
Other Women’s Equal Pay Days
Black Women’s Equal Pay Day will be on July 27th this year. Black women working full-time, year-round in 2022 earned just 67 cents to every dollar paid to non-Hispanic white men. I know not everyone is…
