How Black and Latina women suffer more from the gender pay gap

The Equal Pay Act passed in 1963, making gender-based wage discrimination illegal. However, more than 50 years later women are still paid less than their male counterparts. The pandemic could be making the situation worse, with women suffering more job losses than men. For Black and Latina women, the gap is even bigger. Michelle Miller explains.

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[keithmichaels]

Choose low paying careers then complain about low wages. Yeah ....

[tripocular]

It’s literally been proven time and time again that there is no pay gap, I swear how do people still think this

[monp.]

I'm a latina and I certainly make more than the average latina woman or average man. Do you know why? I have an engineering degree.

[SunraeSkatimunggr]

Even with two Bachelor's Degrees, I never could make more than $36, 000 a year as a single mom, so when I retired, because of age and health issues, I had no retirement other than Social Security at $1029.00 a month.

[saltymonke]

you want the answer?

Teen pregnancy rates and single parent household

[ajg]

Wonder how much this TV reporter makes a year.?

[keithmichaels]

My daughter will see equal pay because she won’t be stupid enough to settle for low wage jobs.

[ericmartin]

i dont see too many women doing the hard labor well paying jobs that men do. last i checked this is a free country and women have the choice to do these jobs but chose not to.

[HKLee-dnfh]

Know that the wage gap is made by what kind of job you do, work hours, education background, work categories etc. it can not be the same wage by gender but by what and how you do.

[crasykills]

Pls update this article. There isn't a pay gap it's an earnings gap.

[FrozenShogun]

I mean “save the women and children first” shouldn’t that come with idk a bonus!? 🤔

[big_dro]

It's pretty sad other people in chat are far more informed than the journalists in the video.

[thefridaynetwork]

If you want a better pay, get a higher-skilled job. There is no such thing as a "gender pay gap."

[geraldnomads]

I think the lain reason Is because women always want credit for doing the same thing a man can do way as a man he wants credit for doing something that’s never been done before.

[charleschristensen]

Remember when the gender wage gap was valid? Neither do I

[seds]

Men just have more energy. Ill keep it that simple

[felixxkiing]

Yeah I have to disagree. I work with directly females of color and they make the same amount of money as I do as a "white man". Female welders who are less experienced then I make the same amount of money I do and aren't subject to do the same heavy lifting or assembly as I. And I dont hate them for it. I'm damn proud of them for sticking with it and doing well. But to argue that there is a wage gap because of color or sex is fundamentally wrong.

[divamarvalousoneal]

I need a personal trainer. Where she at?

[ervinvazquez]

Maybe because she isn’t as good as the men she comparing herself to?

[coreyanderson]

Well, I don't know about black women in terms of pay. I think that women in general are paid less than men. Not just Latina women, or Black women. Also if anything, employers sometimes hire only Latina women. More and more it's Latina women in the offices, and white women working at Fast Food. That isn't a racist thing, it's just an observation. I've seen many cases where every employee was Latina.