Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is on Aug. 22. The day marks how far into the year full-time black women workers must work to earn as much as their white male colleagues.
due to the wage gap. If she and a white male counterpart started a job at the same time, this would mean that a black woman would have to work until age 86 to make what her white male colleague earned by age 60.
“We need a special day to really understand what happens to this population,” Bell said. “If not, they remain invisible.”1. Value black women’s work Take note of the hardworking, driven, motivated black women around you and value their contributions, Bell said. With many black women coming into the workforce with business degrees from top-tier schools, there’s still an expectation that they will have to work twice as hard for promotions, Bell added. When employees need to work twice as long before they receive a well-deserved promotion, they fall farther behind in terms of pay equity.
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