Thirty-seven years ago, black women earned only 6% less than white women. Today, black women earn 19% less than white women. At the same time that the racial wage gap has widened, the gender wage gap has narrowed significantly. “There’s no question that white women benefited more from the narrowing of the gender wage gap than black women,” said Wilson. She noted that in the 1990s, while the gender wage gap for white women grew noticeably smaller, for black women, the disparities stayed the same.

Source: The Guardian September 20, 2016 10:52 UTC