How the coronavirus pandemic will affect Black Women's Equal Pay Day for years to come.
ahead of Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, that “lost earnings not only leave Black women without a financial cushion to weather the current crisis, it also makes it harder for Black women to build wealth, contributing to the racial wealth gap and barriers to Black families’ economic prosperity.” This is especially true for women in frontline jobs; women working as wait staff in restaurants lost $7,800 due to the existing wage gap. Black women working as teachers lost $14,200 this year.
“Black women’s labor market position is the result of employer practices and government policies that disadvantaged Black women relative to white women and men,” she wrote for the Economic Policy Institute in 2019. Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, founder and president of the Women's Institute for Science, Equity and Race, agreed. She said it’s important to consider “occupation segregation.
“While it’s difficult to say with certainty what impact COVID is going to have on Black women’s earning and wage disparities going forward, we certainly know it has interrupted the potential for Black women to increase or push for higher wages,” she said. “In a period where joblessness is low, workers have more leverage. Unfortunately, because of the pandemic, the leverage that workers had, including Black women, has now been stymied.
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