In 2021, Native women were typically paid only 51 cents for every dollar paid to White, non-Latino men. The wage gap will typically cost a Native woman over $1.1 million over a lifetime of work.
of any racial minority. This often means they are farther from resources and opportunities.
As a part of Native Women Launch, Bigby works to support Native American women entrepreneurs. She said when the group surveyed business owners at an event earlier this year, the most common requests for support were around first steps — like finding funding or registering a business. Jaime Gloshay has felt the economic injustice of pay inequity firsthand. “Up until my 35th year of life, I, with a master’s degree, with tons of experience at the federal, state, local, corporate level, was making like $16 an hour supporting a family of five,” she told The 19th.
One of the goals of Native Women Lead is to create capital that makes sense for their communities. Discriminatory credit practices make it difficult for Native Americans to obtain loans or open lines of credit, and there are additional“Unfortunately, when people don’t have access to capital, they also don’t have access to opportunities to build wealth. There’s not a lot of intergenerational wealth transfer within our communities,” Gloshay said.
Designing solutions within communities is one way to address pay inequity, as is increasing financial literacy. Bigby proposed employers recognizing how Native American women can contribute beyond their job duties, by valuing cultural knowledge and community connections, as a way to bridge the pay gap.
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