This is an ad-honorem project for a NGO based in Brooklyn, NYC helping Latin Women break the gender pay gap.

This is an ad-honorem project for a NGO based in Brooklyn, NYC helping Latin Women break the gender pay gap. It addresses the issue of the gender pay gap which is affecting women in the US among many other countries. According to the information retrieved from the United Nations, for every dollar men earn, women earn 0,78. Even though women make up 39% of the United States workforce and hold more advanced degrees than men, they are still lag well behind them in employment. For example, in high-power positions, such as the Congress, only 20% are women. Another example is what Fortune Magazine shows in its 500 successful companies ranking, where just 19% of these high-power positions like board members are occupied by women. Not only that, an average woman loses $434,000 during a 40 year career due to motherhood penalty. In other words, women are protected by law in relation to social benefits but not in the job market where becoming a mother is a common cause to be discriminated against man in the career development. This gets even worse for specific social groups. According to Bernie Sander’s website, where he exposes this injustice as one of his campaign flags, when compared to white men earnings, there are different gaps depending on the women socio-cultural group as shown in the chart below.