Equal Tag

I stood there – frozen. Because the news sank in, I felt a wave of emotions hit me directly. Confusion. Anger. Shame. Guilt. Embarrassment. I used to be being paid $5,000 for a project while my white counterpart was being paid $30,000. And I used to be the one who set the value. Sadly a lesson I now carry with me today. In response to AAUW, Black women make 58 cents to each $1 white men make. Black Women’s Equal Pay Day falls on September twenty first and is the approximate day a Black woman must work into the brand new yr to make the identical salary a non-Hispanic white man earned at the top of the previous yr. Long story short,...