![]() “Millions of women were pushed out of the labor force in the wake of the pandemic and the very gendered and racist impact of the economic crisis is still being felt in the slow and uneven financial recovery. This does not account for the even larger disparities faced by women from different nationalities, disabled women, immigrant women, and other intersecting identities. Black women had to work 21 months in comparison, Latinas 24 months, Native women work 23 months and AAPI women work 17 months. “To make as much as white men earned in 12 months women in 2021, women, on average had to work 15 months. In order to be paid the same amount that a white man was paid for doing the same job the previous year, AAPI women, mothers, Black women, Native women and Latinas now have to work even further into the new year than years prior. “For women of color and working mothers, who already faced even wider wage disparities than women as a whole, the wage gap has actually grown worse in the last year. Unfortunately, the truth paints a much less rosy picture for wage equity in 2022 - especially for women of color and working mothers. “As COVID restrictions begin to lift, the women’s soccer team score a major equal pay settlement,and Women’s Equal Pay Day is observed more than a week earlier than the previous year – it may be tempting to assume all signs are pointing toward a long-awaited economic bounceback for working women. Leng Leng Chancey, the executive director of 9to5, National Association of Working Women, issued the following statement: Contact: Kristin Kepplinger (21 or - Tuesday, March 15, is Equal Pay Day, which spotlights the gender pay gap by marking the date that women must work into the next year to be paid what men were paid in the previous year.
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