China News Service, May 5. According to a comprehensive report by the US "World Journal", May 3 is Equal Pay Day.

In the United States, analysis reports show that in 2020, for every dollar (dollars, the same below) earned by non-Hispanic white men, Asian Pacific women will only earn 75 cents (cents, the same below); that is, the average income of Asian Pacific American women Only 75% of white men.

But Chinese-American women, on average, earn more than white men, and are an exception among Asian-Pacific women.

　　"Equal Pay Day shatters the pervasive 'model minority' myth or the idea that Asians are high-achieving immigrants with the resources and stable income," said Sung Yeon Choimorrow, executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF). She pointed out that the current minimum wage is not enough to make ends meet, and even full-time jobs at the minimum wage cannot afford basic living expenses; "one of the ways to address the wage gap is to increase minimum wage and pay transparency."

　　The National Women's Law Center (NWLC) analyzed Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) full-time labor earnings data from 2015 to 2019, taking a closer look at earnings differences between 24 different ethnic groups of Asian Pacific American women and non-Hispanic white men.

The results show that for every dollar that non-Hispanic white male full-time workers earn in 2020, Asian Pacific American women only earn 75 points; this means that Asian Pacific American women will have to work until the beginning of May this year to earn as much as non-Hispanic white men the previous year. Earn the same amount.

　　Compared with non-Hispanic white men earning one dollar per dollar, Myanmar women earn the least, earning only 50 points; Cambodian women and Nepalese women are also lower, with an average of about 60 points; Japanese women earn 96 points, the closest to non-Hispanic. White men; only Chinese and Indian and Malaysian women earn more than white men.

　　Jasmine Tucker, director of research at NWLC, pointed out that "pay inequality makes Asian-Pacific women less able to successfully cope with the loss of income related to the COVID-19 pandemic than non-Hispanic white men."

(Hu Yuli)