NM Women Earn 79 Cents for Every $1 Made by Men

From bizjournals.com -  Women in New Mexico, on average, earn 79 cents for every $1 made by men in the state.  That’s according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau   and its American Community Survey from 2010. The National Partnership for Women & Families   is highlighting what it says is a persistent wage gap across the country as part of a push to support the Paycheck Fairness Act. It has an online report for each state. The report calculates that as a group, full-time working women in New Mexico lose about $2.3 billion each year due to the wage gap, citing Census data.  More News New Mexico

NM Women Earn 79 Cents for Every $1 Made by Men