On average, American women earn 79 cents for every dollar their male coworkers make according to the U.S. Department of Labor. That gap widens further when broken down by race, with black and Hispanic women averaging roughly half the salaries of white men for the same work.
You won’t find these statistics in Lost Wage Rampage. Any larger context hangs unspoken as two female mall employees fume when they find a document revealing how little they make compared to men they work with, men they’ve trained even. At first, their anger dims to despair; they’ve been wronged, but there’s no clear method for how to regain what they’re owed. To complain could risk them getting fired.
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