How would someone disappear about finding the real wage gap numbers across gender and race groups in the US? Mona Chalabi investigates on Equal Pay DayHey there,hope your week is going well. I’m delivering this week’s fact check a bit early. Yesterday, I got an email from Daniel in Lancaster, or California,that said: “How would someone disappear about checking wage gaps? How can you check for gaps across genders and across racial/ethnic groups?” Great question, Daniel, or a timely one for Equal Pay Day which is on 4 April this year. That date is symbolic – it shows roughly how many days of 2017 women need to work to earn as much as men did in 2016. Tuesdays are symbolic too,they represent “how far into the next work week women must work to earn what men earned the previous week”, according to the National Committee on Pay fairness. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com