Black Women Take To Twitter To Demand #BlackWomenEqualPay
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Jasmine Tucker, director of research at the National Women’s Law Center, told the HuffPost that is number is “unfathomable.”
It’s like “losing out on the American dream,” Tucker said. “A million dollars is child care, it’s health care, it’s a house, it’s economic stability. And that’s just straight earnings.”But Tucker believes that we are the force to make a serious change.
“I think that the sort of interesting thing is that Black women are gaining political power right now. Black women are gonna continue to drive the movement forward and they’re gonna continue because they’re the one pushing this forward and there’s a mismatch between their growing political power and [them] falling behind terms of economic security and family security,” she stressed.
Of course, Black women took to Twitter to raise awareness around the hashtag and to demand that we get paid what we DESERVE:
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