Native Women’s Equal Pay Day 2023: Date, History, 5 Facts About Wage Gap

For native women with more advanced degrees, the disparity grows.

Native Women’s Equal Pay Day 2023: Every year on November 30, we mark Native Women’s Equal Pay Day. Today is the day that Native American women have to work until they have earned the same amount of money that white males did the year before. Put another way, because of the pay gap, it takes Native women 21 months to make what white males make in 12 months. Women’s pay inequality is a serious problem that requires attention, and this day serves to raise awareness of it. This occasion inspires us to highlight the many challenges that women face and to bring attention to this important issue.

Native Women’s Equal Pay Day 2023: History

Gender and racial wage disparities have existed since the dawn of human society. The people didn’t begin to speak out against this inequality in the United States until the 1860s, when they adopted the catchphrase “Equal Pay for Equal Work.” Women’s rights activists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led this effort. They argued for closing the pay gap in speeches like “The Power of the Ballot to Bring Women Equal Pay for Equal Work” and in their publication, “The Revolution.”

The next major attempt to address the disparity on a national level was the Equal Pay Act, which was passed in 1963, two decades later. It outlawed paying men and women differently for work done in the same settings and requiring the same level of skill, effort, and accountability.It did, however, permit several exclusions, such as pay scales determined by merit or seniority.

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When he signed the bill, President John F. Kennedy called inequality “an unconscionable practice,” noting that “the average woman worker gets barely 60% of the average wage for men.” The Civil Rights Act’s Title VII ended race, color, religion, sex, and national origin discrimination a year later in 1964.

Nonetheless, racial and gender pay gaps have remained in society and are more pronounced for some groups than for others. Native women only make sixty cents for every dollar that white men make. To make the same amount of money as a white man does in a year, they must labor nine months longer. The first step in bringing this injustice to light is raising awareness of it. Thus, every year on September 8, it is designated as Native Women’s Equal Pay Day.