National Women’s Law Center – “Based on today’s wage gap, a woman starting her career now will lose $430,480 over a 40-year career, new NWLC analysis shows. For Latinas, this lifetime wage gap totals $1,007,080, and for African American women, the losses are $877,480. The new analysis features an interactive map and state-by-state rankings of the lifetime wage gap for women overall and women by race and ethnicity. It is being released in advance of Equal Pay Day on April 12, 2016; the day which marks how far into the year full-time women workers have to work to make what their male counterparts typically made in the prior year alone. “Women shouldn’t have to work nearly 51 years to make what a man makes in 40 years,” said Emily Martin, NWLC General Counsel and Vice President for Workplace Justice. “The wage gap hasn’t budged in nearly a decade, and as a result women are losing hundreds of thousands of dollars during their work years. And for many women of color, the cost of the lifetime wage gap will exceed a million dollars. We literally can’t afford to ignore this…”