Black Women’s Equal Pay Day.

Today is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day.

Each year Black Women’s Equal Pay Day marks the number of days a Black woman must work into the year to earn what her white male counterpart earned in the previous year. In 2020, that dubious distinction falls today, August 13—226 days into the calendar year.

That means Black women had to work all of 2019 and this far into 2020 to earn what white men earned last year alone—four months longer than white women had to work to accomplish the same goal. Over the course of a Black woman’s career, the pay gap accounts for almost $1 million in lost income.

https://fortune.com/2020/08/13/black-womens-equal-pay-day-wage-gap/?fbclid=IwAR357WDAhXP-LgJkYkIc1Yzjb06ABNKNFVKoo5bZVc-KiY0srFKEhWW8WGw