By Jessica • 18 years ago

UK wage gap hits women of color the hardest

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The Fawcett Society, a UK-based organization fighting against the wage gap, has named tomorrow Women’s No Pay Day, “because the pay gap is the equivalent of men being paid all year and women working for free from October 30th.”
In addition to the gender pay gap, women of color in the UK are disproportionately affected:

Katherine Rake, Director of the Fawcett Society, said: “Every year women are being ripped off by the pay gap and at the current painfully slow rate of progress the pay gap will not be closed in our lifetimes]. It’s worrying that all women face these gaps , [but] that some groups of ethnic minority women face even bigger gaps is outrageous.”

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