“Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) women face a deeply damaging wage gap that creates hardship for them, their families, and communities. NHPI women working full-time, year-round are paid just 66 cents for each dollar paid to white men. When part-time and part-year workers are included as well, that figure drops to just 60 cents on a white man’s dollar. The disparity is shameful and punitive, and it must end. 

“To close the NHPI wage gap, we need policies that reflect the basic fact that Asian Americans are not a monolith. When we fail to disaggregate data that tracks the health, wellbeing and economic status of Asian Americans, we render invisible many of the struggles they face. We need federal data that reflects the NHPI community’s rich diversity and fully measures the discrimination and struggles NHPI women experience. We urge the Office of Management and Budget to build on Statistical Policy Directive (SPD) 15, which requires all federal agencies to collect, analyze, and share disaggregated information about the NHPI community.

“America’s moms will continue fighting to close the wage group that is causing so much harm to moms, families, communities, businesses, and our economy. We want Congress to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would modernize and strengthen the Equal Pay Act of 1963 to better combat pay discrimination and close the wage gap, including by protecting workers from retaliation for discussing pay, banning the use of prior salary history, providing stronger remedies, and codifying pay data collection. It’s past time this bill becomes law. We will not rest until the wage gap is closed for NHPI women, and all women.”