NOW: “Pay Equity Must Include Racial Justice”

Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)—July 31, 2017. Statement of NOW President Terry O’Neill on Black Women’s Equal Pay Day:

Today, Black women catch up in wages to what white men earned in 2016. It’s a striking annual reminder to pay attention to the economic inequality African-American women face, and how it is–tragically, persistently–driven by both race and gender.

Black women earn just 63 cents for every dollar earned by white, non-Hispanic men, according to the National Women’s…