No matter how you slice it, women in the U.S. who work full time are paid less than men.
Women are paid only 81 cents for every dollar paid to men—and for women of color the wage gap is even longer. It’s long past time to close the wage gap.
The Equal Pay Act has been the law for more than 60 years—but we still have much more to do to achieve equal pay.
Low-Paid Jobs & Minimum Wage
Women are much more likely than men to work in the lowest-paid occupations in our economy—jobs such as child care workers, restaurant servers, and home health care workers.
Measuring the Wage Gap
Women of every race are paid less than men, at all education levels—and it only gets worse as women’s careers progress.