Wage gap costs Mass. women $11B a year
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Pay equality has been getting closer, but there is still a discrepancy between the amount paid to full-time working women and men.
A new study has found that the gender wage gap is costing Massachusetts women over $11 billion a year, with Central Massachusetts women faring slightly worse than their more eastern counterparts.
According to the study conducted by the National Partnership for Women & Families, Massachusetts women employed full time, year round are paid on average 82 cents for every dollar paid to men. That comes to a yearly wage gap of $11.2 billion.
The analysis found that the wage gap can be larger for women of color. Among Massachusetts women who hold full time, year-round jobs, African American women are paid 61 cents, Latinas are paid 50 cents and Asian-American women are paid 80 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men.
The analysis spans all 50 states, finding that Massachusetts fared better than the national average of 79 cents per dollar. However, women in congressional districts two and three that comprise Central Massachusetts made on average 81 cents for every dollar paid to men. This stands in contrast to the 91 cents for every dollar paid to men that women in Boston-area district seven made. The poorest performing congressional districts on this metric were numbers six ($.77 per dollar) and nine ($.76) comprising the majority of the north shore and Cape Cod.
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