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24 Mar, 11 tweets, 8 min read

@AAUW

Every year, the @AAUW marks #EqualPayDay for “all” women.

🗓️3/9 was for AAPI women
🗓️8/3 is for Black women
🗓️9/8 is for Native American women
🗓️10/2 is for Latinas

Yet there's no day for White women. Therein lies a broader issue, writes @RhondaVSharpe bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

#EqualPayDay illustrates how far into the new year women would have to work to make as much as men did the previous year.

But women come in a variety of races, ethnicities, marital statuses, education levels and more, all of which intersect bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

@RhondaVSharpe

Most commonly, “women” is assumed to be synonymous with White women.

All too often, @RhondaVSharpe finds herself participating in programs and gatherings dedicated to “women and minorities,” as if the former were only White and the latter weren’t women bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

This marginalizes those with intersectional identities, erasing their lived experiences.

We live in a rapidly diversifying country, where many identify as Asian, Black, Native American, Hispanic — or fall into categories such as “multiracial” or “other” bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

How can White women know where they stand if they are lumped into the “all” category? Failure to disaggregate denies them info about:

➡️Their position relative to men & other women
➡️How gender operates to oppress
➡️How their whiteness provides benefits
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There’s reason to hope that the Biden administration will improve the situation.

It has established a White House Gender Policy Council is prioritizing advancing “racial equity and support for underserved communities” bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

An ambitious next step would be to require all federal gender-equity research to disaggregate data by the characteristics believed to influence outcomes, not just by race and ethnicity intersected with gender bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Consider how disaggregation could improve pay inequality research.

AAUW laments the low relative pay of Black women. But does does that average figure conceal particularly low pay for Black women who did not complete high school? How about Black mothers? bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Through research, these women found that race, ethnicity and marital status affect women’s pay:

Nina Banks
Janelle Jones
Valerie Wilson
Sarah Jane Glynn
Jane Waldfogel

💸In a forthcoming book, Michelle Holder finds that Black Latinas received lower pay bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

@RhondaVSharpe

"I want to see myself in the data. Not just me, the Black woman. All of me:

Black (#ADOS)
Highly educated
Never married
No children
Property owner

Done right, disaggregation allows for intersectional analysis,” writes @RhondaVSharpe bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

So today, as we recognize the pay inequities that women endure, let’s keep in mind that the word “women” includes a great diversity of lived experiences — differences that must be understood if we want to address the problem bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

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