The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, released new data outlining the pay disparities of LGBTQ+ women. The report studied both cisgender and transgender women–analyzed together as a single “LGBTQ+ women” group–and found that LGBTQ+ women workers face a significant wage gap when compared to the earnings of the average U.S. man working full-time. LGBTQ+ women workers in the U.S. earn approximately 79 cents for every dollar that the American man earns. The 2021…
Read MoreWage Gap for LGBTQ+ Women is 79 Cents to the Average Man’s Dollar, According to Human Rights Campaign Report
