gender pay gap
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Omarosa Wants to Join Lawsuit Brought by Woman Who Says Trump Kissed Her Without Her Consent
Omarosa Manigault Newman, who got bounced ignominiously from her nebulous role on #TeamTrump two years ago, wants to join a lawsuit filed by a lesser-known black Trump campaign staffer that alleges Donald Trump kissed her without asking and paid her and other black staffers less than their white and male co-workers. Omarosa is just claiming…
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It's Equal Pay Day. Do You Know Where Your Paycheck Is?
Good news, ladies! We’ve finally caught up! That is, if you consider working until this date to earn the average amount our white, non-Hispanic male peers did in 2018 “catching up.” And while according to 2016 data from the Pew Research Center, white women still out-earn most men of color, if you happen to be…
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On Tuesday, We Wear Red: How to Make a Silent Statement of Solidarity this Equal Pay Day
As a pay gap remains persistent for women—and even more so for most women of color—making a fashion statement may feel as if it should be the furthest thing from our minds. But as millions of women (and hopefully, not only women) rally against pay inequality on Tuesday, April 2, we’ll be seeing red—lots of…
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'Charge It to the Game': WNBA Star Skylar Diggins-Smith Addresses the Gender Pay Gap With Wealthsimple
“Don’t act like you don’t see the discrepancy,” Skylar Diggins-Smith says during a confessional new spot for millennially focused investment management service Wealthsimple. Featured on the company’s ongoing “Money Diaries” campaign, the Dallas Wings All-Star guard gets real about the inequities between men and women’s pay for the same work—even in professional sports. “I’ve experienced…
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Nia Long: 'I’ve Watched a Lot of Men Get Rich Off of the Films That I’ve Done'
Nia Long deserves her coin. “I’ve watched a lot of men get rich off of the films that I’ve done, and I was being paid peanuts,” actress Nia Long said. At an August event for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the iconic actress with a decadeslong career spoke out. Long’s message: Pay women fairly. The…
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'This Is Personal': Steph Curry Advocates for Equal Pay in a Women's Equality Day Essay
Real talk? We hate that for many men, it seems to take becoming a “father of daughters” to understand basic concepts like consent, sexual harassment and equality. Even more frustrating is the fact that there are many fathers of daughters who will never make the attempt to understand, regardless. In fact, so pervasive is the…
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Why Is the Gender Wage Gap Higher for Black Women in New York City and What Can Be Done?
Here’s a not-so-fun fact: While we spend Black Women’s Equal Pay Day 2018 raging against the sexist, racist, patriarchal machine that results in black women making 62 cents to every dollar white men do, it has recently been revealed that that disparity is even worse for black women in America’s largest city. Though New York…
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Lyft x Black Girls Code: How a Strategic Alliance Is Driving the Conversation on Equal Pay Forward
As we focus on the disturbing disparities that make it necessary to recognize Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, there’s an especially sobering statistic that stands out: in addition to the fact that a black woman currently has to work seven months and seven days more than a white man to earn the same salary, that…
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Having Our Say and Reclaiming Our Time: What Social Media Has to Say About Black Women's Equal Pay Day
As part of the recognition of Black Women’s Equal Pay Day 2018, a social media storm is planned for 2 p.m. EDT today, August 7. But in advance of us breaking the internet raising our voices in protest of this deeply intersectional inequality, The Glow Up—which is for, by and about black women—thought we’d take…
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#38PercentCounts: It's Black Women's Equal Pay Day—and What You Don't Know Might Hurt Us
Do you know what today is? It’s Tuesday, August 7; 219 days from the start of 2018. Today is also Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, the date that signifies how much longer black women had to work into 2018 to equal what white men earned in 2017. And in case you’re wondering, it’s been a…