From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/):
August 7 marked Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, a day that symbolizes how long into 2018 an African American woman would have to work in order to be paid the same wages her white male counterpart was paid last year. On average, in 2017, black women workers were paid only 66 cents on the dollar relative to non-Hispanic white men, even after controlling for education, years of experience, and geographic location. In a new blog post, EPI’s Valerie Wilson and Madison Matthews write that black women earn less than white men at every level of education and even when they work in the same occupation.
Read the article at https://www.epi.org/blog/separate-is-still-unequal-how-patterns-of-occupational-segregation-impact-pay-for-black-women/.
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