{"id":3820,"date":"2025-09-22T21:11:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/?page_id=3820"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:21:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T20:21:49","slug":"data-about-the-gender-pay-gap","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/data-about-the-gender-pay-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Data About The Gender Pay Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">Equal Pay Day symbolizes the number of days, on average, that women have&nbsp;to work past the end of the previous year&nbsp;to have earned the same amount of money as men in that year. For example, the Equal Pay Day of Tuesday, March 12, 2024 signifies that a woman would have had to work nearly three full months into&nbsp;2024 until she would earn the same amount earned by a male counterpart. Put another way, women earn in 15 months what men earn in just 12 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/leanin.org\/equal-pay-data-about-the-gender-pay-gap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lean In&#8217;s website<\/a>&nbsp;provides representations of current data on the gender pay gap. Data representations include bar graphs and line graphs. Graphs and charts include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\">The pay gap by gender and race<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\">The pay gap by education level (with options to compare earnings of women of different races with those of white men)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\">The pay gap by occupation (with options to compare earnings of women of different races with those of white men)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\">Average lost income over a 40-year career due to the pay gap, broken down by race<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">In a math class, these data&nbsp;could be tied in to lessons on representations of data and proportional reasoning. They could also be incorporated into lessons in other subjects&nbsp;such as history, civics, government, or politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leanin.org\/equal-pay-data-about-the-gender-pay-gap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Visit Lean In&#8217;s Data about the Gender Pay Gap webpage.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">After learning about the gender pay gap, students may want to talk about how to negotiate for a raise.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gradschoolhub.com%2Ffaqs%2Fhow-do-i-negotiate-a-higher-salary-with-my-employer%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cheidi_schuler-jones%40terc.edu%7Ccf0d8f3f724a4f0c364a08d93590f390%7C322d5924eb17485dad2e5078894cc39a%7C0%7C0%7C637599718969281191%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=LUbbGmP%2FVLXb%2F9As%2BzPRW%2FExXT6rtbAmXYU2jvwLt4o%3D&amp;reserved=0\">This page\u00a0offers some statistics on negotiating for raises<\/a> from both the employee and employer sides. It also offers advice on deciding whether to pursue a raise and how to go about doing it. (Note that the target audience for the site is people pursuing or considering pursuing graduate degrees, so teachers may want to curate the advice for relevance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">Some ideas for sample math units\/lessons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectedny.org\/frameworkposts\/probability-and-statistics-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Being Counted: Probability &amp; Statistics, Part 2<\/a>, one of&nbsp;NYSED\/CUNY&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectedny.org\/indexftgmp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fast Track GRASP Math Learning Modules<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sfa.terc.edu\/materials\/activities.html#mg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Activities about communicating about data<\/a>&nbsp;at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfa.terc.edu\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Statistics for Action<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.5951\/mathteacmiddscho.24.4.0256?seq=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Question Page from Mathematics Teaching in Middle School (NCTM)<\/a>&nbsp;(NCTM members click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.nctm.org\/view\/journals\/mtms\/24\/4\/article-p256.xml?tab_body=contentSummary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>&nbsp;to access the full article.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">Other general resources on the topic include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/stories\/equal-pay-day.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Equal Pay Day at census.gov<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; includes several interesting infographics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pay-equity.org\/day.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Committee on Pay Equity<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; the history of Equal Pay Day<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalpaytoday.org\/overview-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Equal Pay Days for women of different races<\/a>&nbsp;(Asian American and Pacific Islander, Black, Native, Latina)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/leanin.org\/equal-pay-data-about-the-gender-pay-gap\">Data about the Gender Pay Gap<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equal Pay Day symbolizes the number of days, on average, that women have&nbsp;to work past the end of the previous year&nbsp;to have earned the same amount of money as men in that year. For example, the Equal Pay Day of Tuesday, March 12, 2024 signifies that a woman would have had to work nearly three full months into&nbsp;2024 until she would earn the same amount earned by a male counterpart. Put another way, women earn in 15 months what men earn in just 12 months.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/data-about-the-gender-pay-gap\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"720,1582,1656,2359,2371,2934","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3820","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3820"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4257,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3820\/revisions\/4257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}