Today is BlackWomensEqualPayDay. Prominent Black women leaders gathered this week to discuss the persistent issue of the gender and race wage gap for women of color.
Cassandra Welchlin, executive director at Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable, pointed out that even employers asking for“We know that salary history is one of the tenants that continue to make the wage gap wider because we’re not paid what we ought to be,” said Welchlin.
Some believe strongly that funneling more Black women into union jobs will help counteract the wage gap. “Sexism. It is manifested all over the place, across the board, across financial and social status,” said Bryant, “but those of us who are in the most disenfranchised and lowest paying jobs, the ones without benefits, are the women of color, specifically African American women.”
George Gresham, president of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, had a similar standpoint. He said that New York should make it easier for workers to exercise their rights to form and join unions to advance pay equity.
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