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Black women make less than men, and age, motherhood, and other factors exacerbate their low wages.

67 cents for every dollar a white man made. That’s what working Black women earned in 2022 — a wage gap that persists despite Equal Pay Day being acknowledged since 1996.

The wage gap starts from the time women enter the workforce and follows them into retirement. And for Black women — who exist at the intersection of racism and sexism — better and equal pay is essential for closing the racial wealth gap.

Closing the gender wage gap is “critically important because it’s an issue that impacts women across all sectors and racial and ethnic lines,” says Gloria L. Blackwell, president of the American Association of University Women. 

When we look at Black, Latino, and Indigenous women’s pay, they are even further from parity. Women working part-time or living in Southern states make even less. Meanwhile, white women, Asian American women, and men generally, still earn significantly more.

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