Anyone who’s been paying attention for the last few, well, decades, knows that women, on average, earn less than men. But there’s less awareness of how sexual orientation, gender identity, race, and other factors affect the gender pay gap.
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research is out to change that.“We all hear 80 cents on the dollar,” says C. Nicole Mason, the African-American lesbian who serves as Washington, D.C.-based IWPR’s president and CEO.