latina.com, this latest data fails to account for the more than $5.5 million women workers forced out of the labor market in 2020. one million of those women were latinas. overall, the lowest paid workers made up the majority of laborers were pushed out of the market and because these women were not working, there was no workforce data to represent them in the recent pay gab calculations. so, as ramirez points out, the result showing latina pay gap shrinking by two cents was a calculation based on the earnings of mostly higher paid workers. i don t know if you want my two cents or not, the reality is this, it takes latinas almost 22 months to catch up to what white non-hispanic men are paid in half the time or as the national women s law center calculates it would take latinas more than 400 years to earn what a white male earns in a normal four-year
average of 57 cents to every dollar in white, non-hispanic or male worker makes. that is up from 2 cents from last year. but do not let those two pennies fool you. as an attorney, activist and author lays out an an op-ed for latina.com this latest data fails to account for the more than 5.5 million women workers that were forced out of the labor market in 2020. 1 million of those women were latinas. overall the lowest paid workers made up the majority of labors were pushed out of the market. and because these women were not working there was no data to represent them in the recent pay gap cal lags. so as ramirez points out the result showing the pay gap shrinking by 2 cents is a calculation based on the earnings of mostly higher paid workers. the reality of the status quo is this. it takes latinas almost 22