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The Federal Government Is About To Stop Tracking Workplace Discrimination. Black Women Stand To Pay The Highest Price
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By Maia Niguel Hoskin
The timing of this proposal is particularly consequential for Black women, Latinas, and other women of color, who remain among the most economically vulnerable workers in the country, and whose vulnerability is documented precisely because data like the EEO-1 has existed to capture it. According to the Economic Policy Institute’s 2025 analysis, Black women are currently paid just 68.3 cents for every dollar earned by white men, a gap that widened in 2025 for the second consecutive year. For Latinx women, the figure is even more stark at 64.5 cents on the dollar, translating to a wage deficit of more than $23,000 annually for full-time workers.
In 2025, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research found that Black women with bachelor’s degrees earn just 61.3% of what white men with the same credential earn, and those with professional degrees earn only 60.9%, which means educational attainment does not close the gap. A Department of Labor report found that in 2023, Black women lost an estimated $42.7 billion in wages compared to white men — losses driven by occupational segregation and discrimination that are, at their core, systemic rather than individual.