Additionally, the wage gap widens for educated Latinas. Latinas are pursuing higher education more than ever before but education does not eliminate the wage gap. Data found that the gap is in fact largest for Latinas with a bachelor’s degree. Despite their higher education these Latinas earn 35% less than white men on average, and even in the same position, Latinas still earn less than white men. Latinas also ask for promotions and raises at similar rates to white men, yet for every 100 men promoted to manager, only 71 Latinas are promoted.

Victoria Arena – We need to talk about the Latina Wage Gap

Despite increasing gains in educational attainment and presence in the labor force, Latinas are systematically and disproportionately underrepresented in leadership positions across industries and leader levels in the United States. Latinas’ contributions are undervalued in the workplace. As of 2022, Latinas are subjected to the most severe wage gap in the nation, earning a paltry $0.49 to every dollar made by White men. Although sparse, the literature shows Latinas face systemic and cultural oppression; and without parity in leadership representation, Latinas are confronted with a lack of role models, mentors, and sponsors needed to advance professionally.

Cristina Padilla. Latinidad and the Agency of Voice. Latina Leader Identity
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For Latinas, it’s now 49 cents: In 2022, Latina Women’s Equal Pay Day won’t pass until December 8.” For white women, the gap shortened to 89 cents to a typical men’s dollar, up one cent from the previous year.

Luz Staff. (2022). The 2022 Latina Wage Gap is disastrously larger than the year before. Luz Media.

The pandemic did not create new gender inequalities in the workforce, but it is noteworthy that it did substantially worsen existing inequalities.

Thoreau, M. (2021). The She-cession: How the pandemic forced women from the workplace and how employers can respond. Ohio State University Extension.

On Tuesday, the Department of Labor released a report…finding that caregiving burdens and occupational segregation exacerbated pay disparities among Black and Hispanic women in particular.

Even as U.S. women advanced in pay overall, women of color actually lost pay compared to their White male counterparts, according to data from the American Association of University Women.

Branigin, A. (2022). Equal pay day falls earlier this year. Here’s what to know. Washington Post