Today is National Equal Pay Day. The most recent data from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research show that full-time, year round working women in Montana make an average of 74 cents to the man’s dollar. Specifically, white women make 73.4% to the white man’s dollar, Latina/Latinx women make 53.7% to the white man’s dollar, Black women make 61.7%, Asian women make 75.2%, Native American women make 66.9% to the white man’s dollar, and multi-racial women make 60%.
Although it doesn’t make up the change, 15 local businesses in Bozeman are recognizing Montana’s wage gap by giving women shoppers a 26%-off discount today, since women in Montana on average earn 26% less than their male counterparts:
Wild Joe’s Coffee
Treeline Coffee
Bozeman Film Celebration
Great Rocky Mountain Toy Company
We encourage you to visit these businesses today.
For more information and statistics on the gender wage gap, visit:
https://statusofwomendata.org/wp-content/themes/witsfull/factsheets/economics/factsheet-montana.pdf
https://iwpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/C464_Gender-Wage-Gap-2.pdf