Who needs ghost stories? There’s nothing scarier than the gender pay gap.
As AAUW’s research shows, women of all walks of life experience the gender pay gap, and it’s even worse for women of color. At 63 cents to the dollar, that earnings ratio means it takes the typical black woman nearly seven extra months to be paid what the average white man took home back on December 31. Hispanic and Latina women face the worst pay disparity, getting paid only 54 percent of what white men get paid.