"Young women just entering the workforce need to learn negotiation techniques now, as that will affect their earnings their entire working life", Nancy Wesson-Dodd, YWCA President and CEO said.
States are offering creative solutions to expand protections for women and close federal loopholes in the fight to end the gender wage gap, NBC News reported.
Women can actually start out at the same pay scale as their male counterparts, but as they move up the ladder they are less likely to negotiate for pay.
While the overall gender pay gap is 20 percent nationally, in San Diego County it is slightly smaller: 13 percent.
Black and Hispanic female workers are paid 65 cents and 58 cents on the dollar, respectively, compared to the 81 cents that white, non-Hispanic female workers are paid and the 90 cents that Asian women are paid.
In January 2016, state lawmakers closed a loophole some employers were using to justify paying men and women different salaries for the same work. If you happen to be a mom or woman of color, the statistics are even more jarring. An in-depth examination of the gender wage gap by economists found that discrimination plays a role.
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When you take a career-long view, the gap hinders wealth building.
Just under half of the United Kingdom workforce - 15 million people - will be affected by the legislation, which experts say could do more to combat sexist salaries than any law has in decades.
Tuesday, April 4, is Equal Pay Day, the day symbolizing how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year and observed by activists and advocates as an occasion to raise awareness about the gender pay gap.
According to calculations from the National Women's Law Center in D.C., women in New Jersey make 82 cents for every dollar a man earns. They work hard every day at every kind of work there is.
Things have improved over time, but progress has largely stalled in recent years.
This may only be 18 cents less, but a study done by the National Partnership for Women & Families, a D.C. -based nonprofit, says that gap amounts to a yearly loss of $7,743 for women. While these jobs tend to pay better - occupations with large numbers of women pay, on average, about 83 percent of those dominated by men - women still earn less than men in the most common jobs that men hold.
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