“Your competency gets questioned more, all those sorts of things that you hear about women in the workplace are somewhat exaggerated when it’s one woman with a group of ten men, which is pretty standard in my experience”, Miller-Webster said. The American Association of University Women (AAUW) floated out statistics this week that said black women are paid 63% and Latina women make only 54% compared to what white men make. The pay gap is even worse for women of color and moms who have to work even longer for their salaries to catch up.
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Clott said the skills women are expected to take up as their profession put them at a disadvantage in the workforce.
Latinas in Utah make only 47 cents for each dollar men earn, according to a study pointing out the wage gap across the United States.
Sending a message out to the world about bridging the gender pay gap, social networking site Facebook and technology giant Microsoft have disclosed that they pay male and female employees equally. The women on our national soccer team are some of the most successful American athletes alive and even THEY have to deal with the pay gap.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is exhausted of commemorating Equal Pay Day, calling it “a national day of embarrassment” in a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday. It’s Equal Pay Day, folks, the day to think and protest the lack thereof. Recently, five soccer players accused the U.S. Soccer Federation of wage discrimination, citing the fact that they earn as little as 40 percent of what players on the U.S. Men’s National Team earn. Trump claims to “love equal pay”, but says he won’t support the legislative efforts necessary to make it happen. Because of the wage gap, our state and economy are missing out on $39 billion a year. Across all degrees, the wage gap narrows with increased levels of education for women.
“We’ve done this every year, and unfortunately, the wage gap is not closing”, she said.
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“For all instances of inequality, you need everyone working together to create change”, Weiss said.
