In the United States, pay gap is especially stark for Black women, who face not only race discrimination, but also sex discrimination reported the National Women's Law Center on Thursday.
RELATED:
Americans Protest the Death of Afro-American Killed by Police
Among full-time, year-round workers, Black women typically make just 67 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men, according to the report.
"This wage gap costs Black women 1,891 U.S. dollars per month, 22,692 dollars per year and a staggering loss of 907,680 dollars over a 40-year career," said the report.
The U.S. labor market has shifted dramatically since March 2020 -- millions of jobs were lost, particularly the low-paid jobs where Black women are overrepresented, and many women left the labor force altogether, it said.
"The loss of these jobs means the wage gap for full-time year-round workers in 2021 doesn't capture the experience of the many Black women who lost jobs, were forced into part-time work, or who were pushed out of the labor force altogether during the pandemic," it added.