- 56 cents for “all earners” for full-time year-round + part-time and part-year
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68 cents for full-time, year-round earners
Equal Pay Today will be supporting our friends at the National Partnership for Women & Families, AAPD, Disability Culture Lab, CLASP, NDI, Autistic Self Advocacy Network, CAP Disability Justice Initiative, Women Enabled International, Center for Racial and Disability Justice, and the National Women’s Law Center, who have come together to organize the first-ever Disabled Women’s Equal Pay Day.
For every dollar earned by all nondisabled men, disabled women earners (full-time, part-time, and part-year), bring home a mere 56 cents due to a long history of ableism, institutionalization, and workplace discrimination. While disabled workers are especially likely to work part time, even when looking at disabled women working full time and year round, they are still only paid 68 cents for every dollar paid to a nondisabled man working full time, year round. Like all gender pay gaps, the wage gaps for disabled women of color are even wider due to the intersectional and compounding nature of sexism, racism, and ableism.
Policy reforms are necessary to remove ableist barriers that trap disabled women in poverty and transform systems that perpetuate the egregious wage gap for disabled women. And we know addressing the wage gap for disabled is just the beginning.