In this week’s Increase Diversity newsletter, Jenn Tardy takes “A Deeper Look at the Gender Pay Gap and its Intersectionality With Race and Age.”
Tardy takes us through a brief history of the gender pay gap and the legislation that was enacted to make a difference through the decades to bring us to the present day.
The sad fact is that even now, “in 21st century America, race determines a woman’s economic opportunities much more than educational level.” Not only that but “a recent study by Pew Research Center recently revealed the intersectionality of the gender pay gap with age, showing that the gap widens for working women as they age (relative to men of the same age)…[reminding] us that the pay gap affects all women at all organizational and experience levels.”
