The Ultimate Cost Of Free Labor: A Quick Reminder That Black Women’s Pay Inequity Of Today Stemmed From Slavery

Essence Magazine:

By Jasmine Browley· Updated September 21, 2022

We all know the deal by now.

Black women are paid significantly less than their white male and female counterparts. So much so, every year we highlight the pay inequity issue on Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, which was started by the National Committee on Pay Equity in 1996. The revolving date denotes when in the year women must work to match white

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