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Everything To Know About Black Women’s Equal Pay Day

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Everything To Know About Black Women’s Equal Pay Day

Written By Clarissa Hamlin via https://newsone.com

August 7 marks Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, bringing awareness to the demeaning statistic that it takes an additional 219 days for African-American women to earn the annual salary of white men.

Gender and race pay disparities have led to Black women earning only $.63 cents on the dollar compared to white men, Equal Pay Today reported. Women of color have had to work more than 7 months into 2018 just to match that majority group’s 2017 pay scale — a fact that is equally alarming and urgent to address in our society…

 

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