{"id":20205,"date":"2019-08-24T02:16:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T02:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=20205"},"modified":"2019-08-24T02:16:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T02:16:34","slug":"39-percent-wage-gap-for-black-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/39-percent-wage-gap-for-black-women\/","title":{"rendered":"NWLC reveals 39 percent wage gap for black women"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Women\u2019s Law Center (NWLC) reveals thirty-nine percent<\/a> (39%) wage gap between black women and white men after analysis of statistics from the 2018 United States (US) Census Bureau. Data show that black women received sixty-one (61) cents to every one dollar ($1) earned by white men.\u00a0<\/strong>
\nThe disparity is more evident among female minority groups when it is compared to the US overall women who earned eighty (80) cents to every dollar paid to their white male counterparts which equate to twenty-one percent (21) less pay for black women.<\/span>
\nThis meant that<\/strong> in the course of forty (40) years spent in career, it would show about nine hundred and forty-six thousand dollars ($946,000) of the staggering wage gap, as claimed by the research.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>
\nAugust 22 was celebrated as the Black Women\u2019s Equal Pay Day which aims to raise awareness of the disparity regarding the wage gap.
\nThe day marked on how black women took approximately twenty (20) years to catch up with the same amount of average annual salary of white men.\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe National Women’s Law Center is a United States non-profit organization<\/a> founded by Marcia Greenberger in 1972 and based in Washington, D.C. The Center advocates for women’s rights through litigation and policy initiatives.<\/p>\n

Staggering wage gap and inequality<\/b><\/h2>\n

The gender wage gap has been going on since before. After income reforms regarding gender for decades, the wages of black women appear to be left behind.<\/span>
\nIn the survey of the Black Women\u2019s Equal Pay 2019, only more than one (1) in three (3) Americans lack awareness about the wage gap crisis between black women and whiter men.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe LeanIn.Org co-founder and CEO, Rachel Thomas, stated that \u201cblack women and their families certainly feel the effects\u201d even if the majority of the population are oblivious about income inequality.\u00a0<\/span>
\nOver eighty percent (80%) of black women are the main financial provider for their families.<\/strong> <\/span>
\nTo take care of their families, women are more inclined to work part-time or have time-off over the course of their careers than their male counterparts.\u00a0<\/span>
\nHowever, regardless of the age and personal background, the wage gap doesn\u2019t play in these variables as the Census data revealed.\u00a0<\/span>
\nIn fact, the pay gap widens as women progress to have undergraduate and advanced degrees in their educational pursuit<\/a> as it was presented in Lean In<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>\"\"<\/a>Based on the weekly earnings, men start to get ahead from having five hundred and eighty-four dollars ($584) in contrast to black women\u2019s wage of four hundred and fifty dollars ($450). <\/span>
\nThe haul begins to stretch as early as having less than a high school diploma up to having an advanced degree at their disposal.
\nAs if that wasn’t enough, data shows that the pay gap starts on an average of sixteen (16) years of age. <\/span>
\nFrom that point, the disparity only widens until over age fifty-five (55) years.<\/strong><\/span>\"\"<\/a> The average annual salary of a typical low-paying job for black women is twenty-three thousand and six hundred dollars ($23,000) while white men have a starting pay of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000).\u00a0<\/span>
\nIn high-paying career positions, the gap is even more apparent.\u00a0<\/strong>
\nThe same position that black women attain in high-paying fields such as law, engineering and medical has an average salary of seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) which pales in comparison to white males annual pay of one hundred and five thousand dollars ($105,000).<\/span>
\nTo resolve the pay discrimination, a congressional bill called <\/span>Paycheck Fairness Act<\/a><\/strong> was sent to the Senate this year but has yet to receive a final word whether it is going to be put into effect or not.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For all women not white…<\/h2>\n

Working an additional four months to receive equal pay sounds absurd, but consider this reality: For African-American women, Equal Pay Day won\u2019t be recognized until August 22. For Native American and Latina women, Equal Pay Day won\u2019t be recognized until September 23 and November 20.
\nAsian-American and Pacific Islander women reached Equal Pay Day on March 5,\u00a0but massive pay gaps persist between subgroups<\/a>. White women will wait a few days after April 2 for their Equal Pay Day to be recognized on April 19.
\nMeanwhile, in 2016, Asians were the highest-earning racial and ethnic group in the U.S. The\u00a0median annual income<\/a> for Asian adults was $51,288, compared with $47,958 for whites and $31,082 for blacks. Why is that? This matter of the wage gap in the US is becoming more interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Women\u2019s Law Center (NWLC) reveals thirty-nine percent (39%) wage gap between black women and white men after analysis of statistics from the 2018 United States (US) Census Bureau. Data show that black women received sixty-one (61) cents to every one dollar ($1) earned by white men.\u00a0 The disparity is more evident among female […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":20208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,25],"tags":[452,476],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}