Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women have to work 15 months to earn what a man makes in one year, the National Women's Law Center found.
An AAPI — also referred to as AANHPI — woman has to work 15 months to earn what a white man makes in one year, according to the National Women's Law Center.
In other words, an AAPI woman has to work 15 months to earn what a man makes in one year, according to an analysis by the"The discrimination that many Asian women face can be really different depending on their cultural background," she said.Although AAPI — also referred to as AANHPI — communities together constitute some of the fastest-growing ethnic groups in the U.S.
For some groups the losses are much greater. The lifetime wage gap totals more than $1.4 million for Bhutanese women. Burmese women stand to lose more than $1.2 million because of the wage gap, Nepalese women over $1.1 million, and Hmong, Cambodian, and Laotian women more than $1 million over the course of their careers, the nonprofit advocacy group found.
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