Asian American & Pacific Islander Women’s Equal Day

March 9, 2021

Asian American and Pacific Islander women are paid 85 cents for every dollar paid to white men.

#AAPIEqualPay Day 2021

Name: Asian American & Pacific Islander Women’s Equal Day
Start: 2021-03-09T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2021-03-09T23:59:59-05:00

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The average Asian American / Pacific Islander woman is paid $0.85 for every $1.00 paid white, non-Hispanic men, losing hundreds of thousands of dollars over a 40-year career.

But, that’s only part of the #AAPIEqualPay story. For certain communities, the wage gap is far greater. Vietnamese women earn $0.67, Hmong women earn $0.61, and Burmese women earn only $0.52, making them some of the lowest paid people in the nation. Even within high earning fields, Asian women are paid less than their male counterparts. “Model-minority” rhetoric is racist, classist, divisive, and just plain wrong. The wage gap affects ALL women.

For more: www.equalpaytoday.org/aapi-womens-equal-pay-day-2021