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John:

Today is Equal Pay Day, and we'd like to share a powerful blog post from one of our vice presidents, Erika Moritsugu. See below.

In addition, we prepared new data analysis and updated our interactive map, so you can see how the wage gap affects women in every state and congressional district - and how it impacts Latinas, Native women, Black women and Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) women.
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We all have a lot on our minds these days with the public health crisis and economic hardship caused by the coronavirus pandemic, but let's not lose sight of the racism and inequality that persist.

Thank you!
-- Your friends at the National Partnership


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What's the Wage Gap Really About?
By Erika L. Moritsugu

Each year, we somberly observe Equal Pay Day, an inauspicious "holiday" that marks how many more months women must work to be paid what men were in the previous year.

Our annual analysis and call to action for equal pay inevitably invites trolling and pushback from those who would like to explain away the numbers.

But there is no explaining away what the wage gap represents:

It is just one of many examples of the burden women of color bear by living in a white supremacist and patriarchal society.

That's why, this year, we are encouraging our allies, elected leaders and activists to look beyond the numbers associated with the traditional Equal Pay Day narrative. The wage gap has real consequences for women and families, but we must remember that the gap itself is a consequence of how our country systematically devalues women of color and their labor.

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