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March was Women’s History Month, which gave us a chance to shine the spotlight on some of the amazing women business owners in our community and beyond. On April 10th, we acknowledge Equal Pay Day*. The date itself is a somber reminder of the significant gender-based pay-gap in the United States, since the date marks how far into 2018 a woman needs to work to earn what a man was paid in 2017. Based on 2016 U.S. Census data, women make 80 cents for every dollar a man earns, and moms earn even less -- 70 cents for every dollar paid to a dad.
The bad news gets even worse when we consider ethnicity, with African-American women averaging 63 cents on the dollar, Native American women bringing in 57 cents and Latinas getting only 54 cents for every dollar earned by a white, non-Hispanic man. Asian-American women average only 87 cents.
These grim statistics got us wondering:
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(*There’s a stand-alone Equal Pay Day for women in each demographic, including one for moms. Here’s the schedule for all the Equal Pay Days in 2018.)
