- 64 cents for “all earners” (full time year-round + part time and part year)
- 74 cents for full time, year round workers
Moms’ Equal Pay Day will be held on August 6 this year.
Women who are both workers and caregivers are deeply impacted by cultural stereotypes and workplaces designed around workers without caregiver responsibilities or who have others performing caregiving work on their behalf. Moms are the backbone of our economy, predominantly shouldering unpaid caregiving work within their families and being valuable workers in the formal economy. Yet, pay discrimination, caregiver discrimination, and a lack of public investment in childcare and other supports, continue to limit their pay and opportunities, impacting their economic stability and future economic security.
These barriers are further exacerbated by the current administration, which is simultaneously depriving women of reproductive freedom, pushing women to have more babies, all while dismantling baseline supports necessary for families to have the means to raise children. The administration’s comprehensive attacks includes rollbacks in funding for childcare and early education programs like Head Start; cuts to core benefits for women and children like SNAP and WIC; significant reductions to Medicaid funding for vital maternal care services; and rollbacks to anti-discrimination and workplace protections, including proposed rollbacks to basic labor protections for home care workers and efforts to weaken enforcement of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. These funding cuts, particularly cuts to childcare, directly inhibit women’s labor market participation by forcing many to leave their jobs to care for children.
For this year’s Moms’ Equal Pay Day, we will be using the hashtag #MomsEqualPayDay and our shared calls to action focus on two critical issues that can help support working parents.
