Women of color are bearing the brunt of the municipal pay gap and will continue to do so unless the city intervenes, a recent report and hearing by the City Council found.
The phenomenon of occupational segregation, where women and people of color are disproportionately represented in the titles with the lowest median salaries, accounted for 95 percent of the racial and gender pay gap among city workers, according to the report. Compared to every dollar earned by white male employees in the city workforce, all other municipal employees earned 82 cents. Among the workers facing a pay disparity, 31.5 percent were Black, Latino, Asian and other men of color and 55 percent were women of color.
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