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Despite being original inhabitants and stewards of this land, Indigenous women have never been compensated for the full value of their labor in the U.S. workforce, and this inequity persists today. In 2023, the most recent data available, Indigenous women were paid 58 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men. Moreover, the wage gap widens when part-year and part-time workers are included: Indigenous women were typically paid just 52 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men.
We need public investments and economic policies that support economic opportunity and address the problematic inequities failing Indigenous women every day, robbing them of hundreds of thousands of dollars over their lifetimes, making it more difficult to make ends meet, and preventing them and their families from building wealth.