Tag Archives: Equal Pay Day   Unequal Wages Cost Phoenix Women
$3.8 Billion  A new analysis released for Equal Pay Day tomorrow
reveals that the Phoenix area’s gender-based wage gap is
punishing local families and the economy. Women who are employed
full time in the Phoenix area are paid 85 cents for every dollar
paid to men, amounting to a yearly gap in wages of $6,685.
Collectively, this amounts to a loss of nearly $3.8 billion in
income every year – money that could strengthen the local
economy and provide critical support to the more than 198,000
Phoenix area households headed by women.  The analysis was
conducted by the National Partnership for Women & Families,
based on U.S. Census Bureau data. The National Partnership
analyzed the wage gap in the country’s 50 largest metropolitan
areas and in all 50 states. It found that, statewide, women in
Arizona are paid 85 cents for every dollar paid to men.
According to the analysis, if the gap between men’s and women’s
wages in the Phoenix area were eliminated