December 5, 2015

Manhattan branch member, Nancy Bolsen, who also serves as statewide president of the American Association of University Women, was recently quoted in a Wichita Eagle newspaper article titled, “Pay disparity between women and men greater in Sedgwick County.”

As stated in the article, US Census Data reveals: “Women in Sedgwick County make an average of $12,352 less than men. Wichita women make $11,110 less per year than men….The numbers represent full-time, year-round workers from 2010 to 2014. Kansas women make $10,868 less on average than men each year, and the national disparity sits slightly below Kansas at $10,313.”

“When you have that much less pay, you have that much less to put down on a car or a house,” Bolsen told the Wichita Eagle. “The impacts are huge.”

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Pay disparity between women and men greater in Sedgwick County