The wage gap typically costs Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women with full-time jobs $3,000 per year, according to a new report by the National Women’s Law Center.The paper published Monday further extrapolates what that means for women over the course of their careers: “An AANHPI woman starting her career today stands to lose $120,000 over the next 40 years,” if the pay gap between White men and Asian women does not close. For some Asian women, that’s a best case scenario. Female Burmese, Cambodian, Hmong and Nepalese employees all stand to lose around $1 million over the course of their careers.To be sure, Chinese, Indian, Malaysian and Taiwanese women typically made more than the white men, the analysis showed. Even that has its downfall: As a Payscale report from March noted, the perception that Asian women make as much as or out-earn White men can perpetuate harmful myths about Asian people and serve as fodder for those trying to discount anti-Asian racism.
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