east valley
Volume 4 Issue 36 Mesa, AZ
March 20, 2021
Gender wage gap has not narrowed – may widen BY EMILY SACIA Cronkite News
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ASHINGTON – The wage gap that had been narrowing between men and women stalled in 2019, according to new numbers from the Census Bureau, and advocates fear the situation will only get worse when pandemic-era data is released. The gap improved in both Arizona and the U.S. as a whole over the last five years, but the pace of change has been slow and is getting slower. “The most recent research has shown This chart shows how the wage gap between women and men differs among the states. (U.S. Census Bureau) that women in the la$50,069 in 2019, compared to $41,617 The gap is wider and the pace of gains bor force are at a 33-year low following for women that year, according to the is slower for women of color, disabled the pandemic,” said Elizabeth Barajasbureau, or 83 cents of income for a or LGBTQ women who experience pay Román, president and CEO of the Womman’s dollar. While Arizona women did disparities disproportionately to nonen’s Funding Network. “At this pace, we better than the nation as a whole, their Hispanic white women. won’t close that wage gap until 2157.” gain since 2015 was only 0.4% – and the “Women earn 83 cents on the dollar, On average, women who worked full state’s wage gap actually widened by 2 but really that breaks down when we time and year-round in the United States cents since 2017. happen to look at race,” said Christian F. earned 81 cents in 2019 for every dol“On a national scale and in Arizona, Nunes, president at the National Orgalar their male counterparts made. That it hasn’t really been closing that much nization for Women. “It’s really a white was down from 81.1 cents in 2018, but and it’s been a fairly slow process,” said woman earning 83 cents on the white still represented a better than 1-cent inHayley Brown, a research associate at man’s dollar.” crease since 2015. the Center for Economic and Policy ReNationally, there’s no industry where In Arizona, men’s wages averaged search. women’s earnings exceeded men’s, rePublic Notices ............... page 2 © Copyright, 2022 East Valley Tribune
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