While the National Women’s Law Center’s state-by-state analysis of Census Bureau statistics shows women in D.C. get, on average, 90.4 cents for every dollar men earn, CEO Update just released statistics Thursday showing the five highest-paid female trade group executives earn just 34 cents compared to their male counterparts.
The difference gets bigger over time. According to the National Women's Law Center, a retiree who was collecting $17,520 last year would see 6.5% less, or $1,139, by age 85, if chained CPI were adopted now. A decade after, their payments would be 9.2% smaller, or $1,612.
According to the National Women's Law Center, the wage gap for minority women is even worse: African-American and Hispanic women make 64 and 55 cents for every dollar their white, non-Hispanic male counterparts earn. The claim that personal choice is responsible for the gender wage gap has also been debunked, mostly recently in the AAUW's 2013 Gender Pay Gap Report.
A study by the National Women’s Law Center found that the District had the slimmest gender wage gap in the nation. According to that report, which evaluated pay on a state-by-state basis, women in the District make 90.4 cents for every dollar a man makes. That’s significantly higher than the national average of 77 cents.
A woman in Georgia who works full-time, year round is paid on average 81 cents for every dollar earned by a man, according to a report by the National Women’s Law Center.
A woman who worked full-time in Tennessee was paid 80.3 cents for every $1 earned by a man in 2011, the National Women’s Law Center said. That was better than the national average of 77 cents.
That means in today's economy, when a mother earns less than her male colleagues, her family may need to sacrifice basic necessities and face greater economic insecurity. Over the course of a lifetime, income lost due to the wage gap puts women at a disadvantage when it comes to saving for a secure retirement or their ability to rely on retirement programs, which reduces their quality of life.
The wage gap between men and women in Kansas is much higher than the majority of the country, according to a new report by the National Women's Law Center.
The average woman working full time in the US makes just 77 cents for every dollar a man makes, according to the National Women's Law Centre.
Fatima Goss Graves, Vice President for Education and Employment at the NWLC, spoke to the BBC's George Alagiah to discuss what should be done to promote pay equality.
This is the question you’re likely to ask when you glance at the National Women’s Law Center’s state-by-state analysis of Census Bureau statistics on how women fare compared to men when it comes to compensation.
