Overall, women in the United States are paid 76 cents for every dollar paid to men, and that gap is widest for women of color. This persistent, pervasive wage gap is driven in part by gender and racial discrimination, workplace harassment, job segregation and a lack of workplace policies that support family caregiving, which is still most often performed by women. On average, women employed in the United States lose a combined total of almost $1.9 trillion every year due to the wage gap. Families, businesses and the economy suffer as a result.
Despite evidence of a widening gender wage gap, the Trump administration has attacked the federal agencies that guard against discriminatory pay and threatened to roll back protections that promote women’s economic security. These dangerous attacks push us in the wrong direction in the fight to close the wage gap and ensure fair pay for all.
Click on a state in the map or choose it from the drop down menu to learn more about the immediate economic implications of the gender wage gap.
For Additional Data
- The Wage Gap #IRL (In Real Life) for Women of Color
- America's Women and the Wage Gap
- Disabled Women and the Wage Gap
- Native American Women and the Wage Gap, in partnership with Return to the Heart Foundation
- Latinas and the Wage Gap, in partnership with Unidos US
- Black Women and the Wage Gap
- Asian American and Pacific Islander Women and the Wage Gap
- Gender Wage Ratio by Congressional District
