Okay so what I didn't have time to write back on Equal Pay Day was this: while white women make about 77 cents to the dollar that white men make, women of color and trans women make even less.
According to TransGriot, black women make 68 cents, and Latina women make 59 cents. WHAT. So let's all keep these numbers in mind when we talk about how much women make: we should be working with the lowest common denominator, not the highest. Since ALL women should be making as much money as their male counterparts (and not be punished for little things like gestating the next generation), we need to focus less on this 77 cents, and more on this 59 cents.
Also: this. Sweet lord, let's not forget about transpeople. They are more often likely to be discriminated against in all areas of life, so the fact that they face serious uphill battles in work is not surprising. We need a lot more local and state-wide non-discrimination laws for the workplace, y'all.
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