In the nation’s capital, a Black woman makes 51 cents for every dollar a White man makes.
The lost cents add up over every paycheck and every year of a woman’s life. Over the course of a 40-year career, a Black woman in the District is estimated to lose $1.98 million because of the wage gap, according to an analysis by the National Women’s Law Center. That means a Black woman would need to work until age 98 to make what a White man made by age 60.
Read more at the Washington Post.