April 12 is officially Equal Pay Day, which we “celebrate” (all the scare quotes) women as a group finally catching up to what men as a group earned in the previous year (technically the precise date for 2016 is April 8). That’s right, it takes 15 months for women’s earnings to match what men make in 12. And it’s 2016.

But the numbers are even worse for many groups of women. It will take nearly 20 months for Black women to catch up to white men’s earnings, over 20 months for Native American women, and 22 months for Latina women. The numbers are terrible for transgender women as well, who face extreme employment discrimination and are about 4 times more likely than the general population to have a household income of under $10,000 a year. And of course, women living at the intersections of marginalized identities face some of the most extreme poverty and wage discrimination.

As we fight wage and employment discrimination, it’s important to remember that the wage gap doesn’t impact all women equally, and that many women are facing a much more extreme gap than is represented by marking unequal pay in April.

This is also a good time to mention that the Feministing crew, which is full of women from marginalized groups, are making sub-poverty level pay for our work here. Can you help us change that?

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