If you work, you deserve to get paid. Sadly, in these times, even that statement is controversial (just see all our wage theft work).
So if it’s hard to even get workers paid, period, it shouldn’t be surprising that there are still opponents to the idea that women deserve equal pay for equal work. Maddening, but not surprising.
Today is Equal Pay Day, and new article from WomenAdvanNCe highlights the all-too-trouble wage gap that still exists. The piece reports on some statistics you’ll have heard (nationally, women make 78 percent of the salary earned by men doing the same job) and some you may not have.
As is often the case, the numbers get most tragic and shocking when broken out by race:
For North Carolina women, the statistics are slightly better. We make 82 cents on the dollar on average, but those numbers plummet for minority women: African American women in North Carolina make 64 cents on the dollar, while Latina North Carolinians make less than half of what men make at 48 cents on the dollar.
Sad and angry about this? You have a right to be. Want a good laugh that makes this same, all-too-salient point? Check this out.
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