20% Less? Today YOU pay 20% less. The Big Number: 80 Percent • Did you know that in 2015, women working full time in the United States typically were paid just 80 percent of what men were paid, a gap of 20 percent? While the number has gone up one percentage point from 2014, the change isn’t statistically significant — because the increase is so small, mere tenths of a percent, it doesn’t amount to perceptible change. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the earnings ratio hasn’t had significant annual change since 2007. The gap has narrowed since the 1970s, due largely to women’s progress in education and workforce participation and to men’s wages rising at a slower rate. Still, the pay gap does not appear likely to go away on its own. At the rate of change between 1960 and 2015, women are expected to reach pay equity with men in 2059. But even that slow progress has stalled in recent years. If change continues at the slower rate seen since 2001, women will not reach pay equity with men until 2152. • #equalpay #equality #notpie #wefight #weresist #wewillwin #outfittingtherevolution #deconstructtheconstruct #womensrights #civilrights #humanrights #resistance #ourfight #intersectionality #blackonblackbk #equalpayday #20less20off (at Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn)