Eradicating Wealth Inequality Includes Achieving Equal Pay: Sources
The sources for the Winter 2019 policy brief are as follows:
- Congress should pass the Paycheck Fairness Act to update and strengthen the EPA and provide robust protection against sex-based pay discrimination in the workplace.
- …and families rely on women’s earnings.
- The gender wage gap varies by race and is larger for most groups of women of color…
- Gender wage gaps persist in all 50 states and in nearly every occupation.
- Significant wage gaps also exist for mothers compared to fathers, LGBTQ women compared with men, and women with disabilities compared to men with disabilities.
- But studies show that at the very beginning of a woman’s career, just one year after college graduation…
- …38% of the wage gap remains unexplained.
- . A recent experiment revealed, for example, that when presented with identical resumes…
- The Paycheck Fairness Act (“PFA”) would update and strengthen the EPA and is a critical measure to address pay discrimination.
- In fact, 61% of private sector employees report…
- When an employer relies on an applicant’s previous salary to set pay, women and people of color can carry pay discrimination and lower wages with them from job to job.
- …a Black woman stands to lose an astounding $946,120 over the course of a 40-year career.
- Recent data show that single Black women have a median wealth…
- A recent study found that if women received the same compensation as their male counterparts…
- Moreover, nearly 60% of women would earn more…
- In 2015, 42% of mothers were the sole or primary breadwinners…
- …another 22.4% were co-breadwinners…
- Yet in 2016, more than half of all poor children…
- …and female-headed households with children were much more likely to be poor…
- …poverty would fall from 5.6 million to 3.1 million.
- Not surprisingly, recent public opinion data show that 79% of women and 70% of men…
- …legislation in over two-thirds of the states…
- …some even go further in enacting protections, such as requiring employers to provide salary ranges to job applicants…
- …women often ask for less when they negotiate than men…
- …mothers experience a particularly large wage gap.
- …pregnant workers with a medical need have reasonable accommodations…
- …adopting nationwide paid family and medical leave and paid sick leave; providing access to affordable, high quality childcare; and ensuring fair work scheduling practices—all of which help ensure that parenthood doesn’t push women out of work or into lower paying jobs.
- …women’s overrepresentation in low-wage and tipped jobs…
- …raising the minimum wage and doing away with the unfair and unjust two-tiered minimum wage system for tipped workers will help to close the gap.
