According to national census data, due to gender and racial pay discrimination, occupational segregation, and unequal professional leadership opportunities, Native women have to work twice as long to catch up with white men’s average earnings. On Native Women’s Equal Pay Day, the BWWC joined the Equal Rights Advocates to raise awareness of workplace inequities experienced by Native women.

Thank you to the Equal Rights Advocates for providing the following resources:

• Quantifying America's Gender Wage Gap By Race/Ethnicity 

• Supporting Two-Spirit/Native American LGBT People

• Native American Women and the Wage Gap (National Partnership for Women and Families)

Additional resources:

• Native Women and the Pay Gap (AAUW)

• Native Women Lose Over $1.1 Million to the Racist and Sexist Wage Gap