
Category: Paycheck Fairness Act
Women can’t lean in to fix structural pay gaps
In the United States, women are encouraged to be part of the solution: lean in, we’re told, negotiate a higher starting salary, raise your hand for projects, and write emails without too many exclamation points. But removing the “just checking in” language from emails is not going to address the underlying systemic causes of gender inequality in our workplaces. Not when United Nations Secretary General…
Latinas in the U.S. still face striking wage gap
Story at a look Thursday, Dec. 8 is Latina Equal Pay Day, an annual reminder of the stark distinction Latinas earn in comparability to their white counterparts. A report from the nonprofit Justice for Migrant Women discovered that Latinas with reported earnings made 0.54 cents for each $1 a White non-Hispanic man earned in 2021. That gap was even wider in 2020, when Latinas earned…