Women are still only making $0.82 to the dollar that men earn.

[IcyPeas]

This not only affects paychecks but also retirement/ social security and 401ks.

Equal Pay Day, which falls on March 24 this year, denotes how far into the new year women must work to be paid what men were paid the previous year.

[mahina]

1. White women

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[IcyPeas]

2. You are correct.... Women of color can earn even less...

White women earned 79 cents, while Asian American and Pacific Islander women earned 85 cents. Worse off are Black women, who earned 63 cents, while Latinas earned 55 cents and Native American women earned 60 cents. That's according to a report from the National Women's Law Center, which based its estimates on median earnings data for full-time, year-round workers from the Census Bureau.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/24/success/equal-pay-day-women/index.html

[Lithos]

3. Correct

While I'm happy the ratio has decreased for White Women - it's still a national tragedy. Remains a disaster for women of color.

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[Amishman]

4. This does point to a problem, but not the one many assume.

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When comparing same the pay gap for the exact same job, it's 0.98 for women. Pretty close, especially when considering that women do tend to temporarily drop out of the workforce more than men mid career (due to maternity).

https://www.payscale.com/data/gender-pay-gap

The real issue is not enough women in certain high paying industries. I work in software development, and while I have seen some improvement in this area, it is still predominantly male. Especially when you look at higher paid speciality positions. When working on a large insurance automated underwriting project I worked with a bunch of actuarial developers. Every single one was male. We paid these guys about 40% more than a regular software developer - which is a high paying job itself.

Also true in the trades. Plumbers, electricians, various heavy equipment operators - all pay well and all predominantly male.

[Kaleva]

5. I used to work in the HVAC trade and I never saw a women doing such work

In the two years I attended a nearby college porpgram learnign the trade, there was not one woman in the program.

Women dominate in the office, except for the owner who was a man who had years of experience doing work in the field himself.

[former9thward]

6. Women are not excluded from the trades.

They are not interested in going into them. For the last four years I helped administer a federal program which gave free tuition and other expenses for community colleges to people (generally recently graduated high school students) who were interested in going into the trades. With rare exception we could not get women to take up the offer.

[Amishman]

8. I didn't say anything about exclusion or discrimination

I just commented that they are simply not there.

Based on my experience in IT, there doesn't appear to be any exclusion going on. If anything I see a willingness to hire a woman over a man even if the woman objectively would be the second or third best candidate. There just aren't as many woman applicants for these jobs.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. Interestingly, when women start to dominate a profession, the pay goes down.

When men come in, it goes up.

[Fullduplexxx]

7. Not in the job I have the union makes sure of that