- 56 cents for “all earners” for full-time year-round + part-time and part-year
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68 cents for full-time, year-round earners
On this day, we recognize that for every dollar earned by all nondisabled men, disabled women earners (full-time, part-time, and part-year), bring home a mere 56 cents due to a long history of ableism, institutionalization, and workplace discrimination. While disabled workers are especially likely to work part time, even when looking at disabled women working full time and year round, they are still only paid 68 cents for every dollar paid to a nondisabled man working full time, year round. Like all gender pay gaps, the wage gaps for disabled women of color are even wider due to the intersectional and compounding nature of sexism, racism, and ableism.
Disabled women face massive time and financial barriers that nondisabled workers do not, with few supports to access work, healthcare, childcare, or accommodations. Disabled women are overrepresented in minimum and sub-minimum wage, poverty-level jobs. This year, disabled women also are facing huge cuts to employment and services that we simply cannot measure because even our ability to track cuts is being blocked, making Disabled Women’s Equal Pay day more important than ever.
Policy reforms are necessary to remove ableist barriers that trap disabled women in poverty and transform systems that perpetuate the egregious wage gap for disabled women.