Native Women's Equal Pay Day
On Native Women's Equal Pay Day, we would like to highlight Institute for Women’s Policy Research Fact Sheet entitled “
A Decade Without Improvement: Native Women and the Wage Gap
” which states the following:
- Native American women must work 20 months to make the same amount White men make in 12 months
- The gender wage gap for Native women has not improved at all over the last decade
- Lower earnings make it even harder for Native women and their families to navigate crises like the COVID-19 pandemic
Institute for Women’s Policy Research suggests the solution is to pursue policies specifically focused on equity, like:
- ensuring essential service and care work is valued
- actively combatting race and gender discrimination
- securing living wages, paid leave, health care, and quality/affordable childcare and eldercare