The Wage Gap Shortchanges Mothers - The wage gap costs mothers working full time, year round $17,000

As large as the wage gap is between mothers and fathers working full time, year round, it doesn’t reflect the reality of many mothers who lost jobs that year because of the pandemic or who were forced into part-time work, as schools went remote and child care providers closed. [...] When comparing all mothers who worked to all fathers who worked in 2020, regardless of how many hours or weeks they worked, mothers were typically paid just 58 cents.1 The wage gap costs mothers working full time, year round $17,000 annually due to the wage gap, and many mothers of color lose even more. [...] Many mothers of color working full time, year round, therefore, lose tens of thousands of dollars to the wage gap with Latina mothers typically losing nearly $38,000 annually, Native American mothers losing nearly $36,000 annually, and Black mothers losing nearly $34,000 annually compared to white, non-Hispanic fathers.8 HOW MUCH MOTHERS WORKING FULL TIME, YEAR ROUND LOSE TO THE WAGE GAP, BY RACE/. [...] Women lost a majority of the nearly 22 million jobs lost between February and April 2020 and continue to make up a majority of net job loses.9 Women are also more likely than men to work part time, and women lost all of the net part-time jobs lost between 2019 and 2021.10 When comparing all mothers who worked in 2020 with all fathers who worked, regardless of how many hours or weeks they worked, m. [...] The impact of the COVID-19 crisis underscores the need to close the wage gap and to continue to work to ensure a recovery that centers the needs of Black, Latina, and Native American mothers, who have been shortchanged and undervalued for too long.