adminNEW YORK. — Serena Williams served up a rallying cry for equal pay for black women on Monday, decrying that they would have to work on average eight months longer to earn the same as male counterparts in one year.
The record-breaking tennis star and world’s highest paid female athlete — who has spoken candidly about sexism and racism — wrote a nearly 1 000-word essay in Fortune magazine to mark Black Women’s Equal Pay Day.
For every dollar made by a man, black women make 63 cents in the United States.
Black women earn 17 percent less than white women, and black women with graduate degrees get paid less at every level, wrote Williams. — AFP.
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