For Women, Equal Pay Day Is in March—But Equal Earnings Day Is Not Until *October*

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If EqualPayDay was based on this more comprehensive measure of the gendered earnings gap, the day would fall much later in the year—more like October. And for women of color, you’d have to wait until the next year.

Day bake sale? That’s when feminists sell baked goods priced according to the gendered wage gap: Men pay a dollar for a cookies or brownies, and women get them for about 80 cents. The prices reflect the gendered wage gap that women on average experience in the U.S. labor force. and commemorated around the world, Equal Pay Day symbolizes about how far into the year the average woman must work in order to earn what the average man earns in the previous year..

But women of color earn even less, according to recent data from Equal Rights Advocates, who calculate that for each $1 a white man earns: Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women earn 75 cents. In 2022, their Equal Pay Day is May 3.Native American women earn 50 cents, marking Equal Pay Day on December 1.

Latinas earn 49 cents, and their Equal Pay Day is December 8—almost a whole calendar year behind their counterparts.But earnings include a lot more than just wages. Other forms of compensation must be calculated in earnings—such as health insurance, retirement account contributions, bonuses and self-employment income.

In March 2015, the Young Democrats group at a high school in Utah held a gender equality bake sale and charged their fellow students different prices. Boys had to pay $1 for the baked goods, while girls only had to pay 77 cents. (

 

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