The One Where Ayana Explains The Gender Wage Gap and Equal Pay

"Young girl, you'll be a woman soon, and then have a job where you're paid only 88 cents to the dollar of a man" or however the song goes.  Women in the United States earn less money than men and strictly because we're women, and though Equal Pay Day has come and gone, equal pay is not a thing in the United States and many factors inform this injustice.  And who has it worse than anyone?  Well, join me as I deep dive into the US gender wage gap and find out the dirty details of this American injustice; learn why equal pay is a dream, a wish your heart makes, cause at the rate we're going we shall not see it in reality.  

Works cited and used: Wikipedia entry "Equal Pay Act of 1963"; WAPT 16 ABC "Mississippi Black Women's Roundtable calling for equal pay law" online article February 8, 2022; National Partnership for Women and Families press statement, April 11, 2016, "The Gender Wage Gap Costs America's Women Nearly $500 Billion Per Year, New Equal Pay Day Study Finds" and Fact Sheet of March 2021 "Paid Leave Will Help Close the Gender Wage Gap"; WH.Gov "Fact Sheet: National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality," issued on October 22, 2021; IWPR.org policy brief issued March 2021 "The Gender Wage Gap by Occupation, Race and Ethnicity 2020"; Marc Benioff for Time Magazine "Thank you, Lilly Ledbetter" published April 12, 2016; Anne Branigan for the Washington Post, "Equal Pay Day falls earlier this year. Here's what to know" published March 15, 2022; Kristin Roe-Finkbeiner for Time Magazine, "This Equal Pay Day, let's smash the maternal wall" published March 15, 2022; and Center for American Progress, “Women of Color and the Wage Gap," published on November 17, 2021; 

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