Katie Benson is a research assistant at the American Association of University Women.
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August 27, 2013
Race/ethnicity has always created a dividing line in the United States, and it’s no different with the pay gap. Each year, AAUW’s The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap addresses this question, and, of course, the answer is that the pay gap affects all women. But it doesn’t affect all women equally. The 2013 edition of The Simple Truth presents the facts about the pay gap between women and men, showing how race and ethnicity as well as gender affect earnings. In 2012, Asian American and white women had higher weekly earnings than African American and Hispanic or Latina women, and the...
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