Better Government Association fact-checks US Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s gender pay gap claims

Research present the pay hole is slowly closing. A 2017 evaluation by the Institute of Ladies’s Coverage Analysis predicts the pay hole in Illinois is not going to totally shut till 2065, at present charges.

Information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics confirmed that in 2020, Illinois girls earned on common 80 cents to for each greenback earned by a person. That is beneath the nationwide common of 82 cents per greenback, placing Illinois in thirty third place for smallest hole out of the 50 states and D.C. Nevertheless, knowledge from the Census American Group Survey reveals the hole is barely smaller in Chicago than it’s for all of Illinois, with girls incomes on common 81 cents for ever greenback earned by a person.

U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth just lately tweeted in regards to the gender pay hole.

“An additional 2 complete months and 15 days. That is how lengthy it takes for white girls to make the identical quantity males made in the identical job final 12 months. And it is even worse for girls of shade,” Duckworth mentioned.

Senator Duckworth’s assertion is correct in noting that the gender pay hole is worse for Black, Latina, Native and Asian American girls. However based mostly on examine she is referring to by the Nationwide Committee on Pay Hole Fairness Group, Duckworth’s declare falls brief.

Higher Authorities Affiliation Politifact Reporter Analise Trofimuk took a more in-depth have a look at Duckworth’s declare, and the present knowledge on job pay gaps, within the BGA’s newest truth test.