Examine: Black girls make 57% lower than white males in Michigan, state ranks twenty second nationally

New knowledge from the Institute for Ladies’s Coverage Analysis (IWPR) launched Tuesday reveals the intersection of gender and race continues to affect pay gaps between Black girls and white males nationwide.

The examine, which examined every state’s pay disparities by means of the lenses of full-time, part-time and 12 months spherical staff, discovered that the nationwide median pay for Black girls is 63.7 cents to each greenback earned by a white man.

Robyn Watson Ellerbe, IWPR’s chief technique officer, mentioned in a press release that the findings of the examine illustrate how prevalent gender pay disparity nonetheless is within the U.S., and that non-white girls bear the brunt of the inequity.

“The gender wage hole is a nationwide shame and girls of colour really feel the burden of that discrimination greater than most,” Watson Ellerbe mentioned. “It’s an injustice girls — and girls of colour specifically — have needed to endure 12 months after 12 months.”

Michigan’s median stacks up in opposition to the nationwide determine, however solely marginally – Black feminine Michiganders make 57% lower than their white male counterparts, dropping over $20,000 a 12 months in wages and making the state a middle-of-the-pack twenty second within the nation for gender pay disparity.