The wage gap is real, but it's even more pronounced when you account for race.
— but as long as “80 cents to every dollar” is the default, the lede in all today’s stories and headlines, I’ll know this day isn’t for all. If it were, we’d start the conversation at “53 cents to every dollar,” and a more appropriate and all-inclusive day would take place in late November, as that would symbolize the amount of time it has taken for all women of all races to catch up to the pay of white men from the previous year.
Until full inclusivity is on the table, let’s not put so much emphasis on this one specific day that, on face value, claims to stand for an entire gender. I believe Equal Pay Day can certainly be acknowledged in the name of feminism, but it’s important to recognize who is being centered, and how white feminism dictates the conversation about womanhood. Black women, Native American women, and Latinas are all women, too — and we shouldn’t have to have our own days of awareness just to be heard.
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