Men have more because we spend our hard-earned cash on $4 lattes, we were told. We impulse-shop while cooler heads save! We don’t balance our budgets or consider our retirement!
No wonder we had less in the bank than our male peers. We know better now. Women are disadvantaged not because of avocado toast or oat-milk cappuccinos, but because of structural issues that no one woman can overcome or outsmart.
The continues to be an embarrassment. Women overall earn 80 cents for each dollar a white man makes. For Black women, the number is 61 cents.
For Hispanic women, it’s 53 cents. The that those inequities cost American women more than $400,000 over the course of their careers.
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