Black women are paid on average 67 cents for every dollar paid to white men, and the wage gap actually increases to 65 cents for Black women who hold doctorate degrees.
, “We’re among the most educated, yet we’re getting paid less and we’re also straddled with debt from student loans. Even the money we make is not our money, because we have to give it back to loans.”
The gender and racial wage gap affects women who have not yet entered the workforce. For example, Kanyin Shonibare, a second-year law student at Columbia University, knows that even with her anticipated law degree in two years, this academic achievement won’t shield her from the wage gap. “It's a double whammy of my race and my gender playing against me, but I haven't even started in my career,” says Shonibare. “There's already this steep obstacle right in front of me, and I’ll be in debt when I graduate. It worries me because, aside from the fact that law school is so expensive, I have a passion for social justice and advocacy, and so I'm not going into a higher-paying job in corporate law.
Shonibare says many of her classmates also share her financial concerns. “My friends and I wonder if we’ll ever be able to afford to have a child or buy a house in a city as expensive as New York,” says Shonibare. “Even when I have a law degree, I know I’ll be paid less than a male lawyer doing the same work I’m doing. Making less money will affect how much I’m able to save and what kind of retirement I’ll have. I’m only 22, but I’m thinking about these things.
Black Women’s Equal Pay Day may be especially important in 2023 in terms of continuing to raise awareness about long-existing inequities. “We just had the Supreme Court's decision striking down racially-conscious admissions in higher education, which has spurred a lot of threats, and conversation about whether maybe we're done with all that,” says Martin. “This Black Women's Equal Pay Day is a really stark reminder that we have a lot of work left to do.
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