The size of the gender pay gap

Corporations can be shockingly unfair: Over the course of a 40-year career, a woman will earn about 430,000 dollars less than a male colleague, according to a study by the American National Women’s Law Center.

For African-American, Latina, and Native American women, the gap is even bigger. Job search platform Hire mined its data and came up with April 12th as the day that marks how far into a new year the average woman has to work in order to match what her male counterpart made the year before. Hired looked at 100,000 job offers for 15,000 candidates at 3,000 companies and found that 69 per cent of the time, men receive higher salary offers than women for the same job title at the same company.