The wage gap is the result of a variety of forms of sex discrimination in the workplace, including discrimination in hiring, promotion and pay, sexual harassment, occupational segregation, bias against mothers, and other ways in which women workers and women’s work are undervalued. Read MoreWho Is Affected By The Wage Gap?
While most women suffer from the wage gap, it does not affect all women equally. African American women earn only 66.8 cents for every dollar a white man earns, while Hispanic women earn only 54 cents to the while male dollar. Read MoreWhat Are the Costs of the Wage Gap?
Because of the wage gap, more women than men fear — and experience — poverty, or teeter right on the edge. They are missing almost a quarter of their rightful earnings—money that few women can afford to miss. Read More
