Black Women, COVID-19 And Equal Pay

Black Women, COVID-19 And Equal Pay

By ·December 7, 2020December 7, 2020

Black Women’s Equal Pay Day fell on August, 13, 2020. This means that Black women had to work an additional seven and a half months this year—in addition to the 12 months we worked last year—just to make as much as our white male counterparts did in 2019.

COVID-19 has exacerbated the unacceptable and constant issue of pay discrimination that disproportionately impacts Black women.

As many of us know by now, Black women only earn 62 cents on the dollar for every dollar earned by white men. And this wage gap adds up

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