Pay Gaps Across Demographics
Historical and Systemic Causes
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This racial group of women earns 82 cents for every dollar a White, non-Hispanic male earns.

What are White women?

200

This 1963 law aimed to address wage inequality but has failed to fully close the gender pay gap.

What is the Equal Pay Act?

400

On average, this group earns only 57 cents for every dollar paid to White, non-Hispanic men, often facing the highest poverty rates.

Who are Native American women?

400

Colonial oppression fractured matrilineal structures in this community, leading to systemic inequities that persist in pay disparity.

Who are Native Americans?

400

Black women earn this percentage of a dollar compared to White, non-Hispanic men, a disparity that persists across all occupations.

What is 63%?

400

This practice, often targeting immigrant women, contributes to pay inequality by placing them in low-paying, informal work sectors.

What is informal labor?

600

Despite having higher education levels than their male counterparts, this group earns only 85 cents for every dollar paid to White, non-Hispanic men.

Who are Asian women?

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Gender norms and expectations are cited as the greatest enforcers of this workplace inequity.

What is unequal pay?