Alaska Equal Pay Day Analysis Shows Terrible Toll Gender Wage Gap Takes on State’s Women and Families

If the Gap Were Closed, Alaska Women Could Afford Food for 1.6 More Years, Nearly Seven More Months of Mortgage Payments, 10.5+ Additional Months of Rent or Nearly 14 More Months of Child Care Annually

An analysis released for Equal Pay Day tomorrow reveals the size of the gender wage gap and its detrimental effects on the spending power of Alaska women. Women employed full time, year-round in Alaska are paid just 78 cents for every dollar paid to men, amounting to a yearly gap of $12,297. That means Alaska women lose a combined total of more than $1.6 billion