“It exemplifies the many reasons women continue to lag behind men when it comes to getting equal pay for equal work.”
Some workers are able to work from home, pay for childcare and stock up on food. Others are pushed out of low-wage hourly jobs because of social distancing and must juggle childcare for children released from shuttered schools. Women are disproportionately those workers at the bottom. As the, women are almost half the workforce — and the sole or co-breadwinner in half of American families with children.
Research shows that the pay gap is not just a matter of women working less than men, having less education or holding jobs that pay less. So here in New York City we are chipping away at a wage gap that is driven by a: concentration in lower-paying jobs; sexual harassment; unfair compensation; racial discrimination; losing seniority and money because of pregnancy, childcare and other family duties.
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