Good morning, Broadsheet readers! Former Theranos president Sunny Balwani is sentenced to almost 13 years in prison, Brittney Griner was released from a Russian prison, and Thursday marks equal pay day for Latinas.
- Equal pay. Thursday, Dec. 8 is Latina Equal Pay Day. In 2021, Latinas working full-time and part-time jobs earned just 54 cents for every dollar the average white non-Hispanic man earned. Over the course of a 40-year career, Latinas will lose out on nearly $1.2 million in income compared to white men, meaning they would have to work until they were 90 years old (six years past their 84-year life expectancy, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) to make up for lost wages, according to the National Women’s Law Center.
“When we look at Latinas in our country, it is clear that we are not working half as hard, it is clear that we are not half as good at our jobs, and we are not half as qualified,” Mónica Ramírez, co-founder of The Latinx House and chair of the annual Latina Equal Pay Day campaign, tells Fortune. “There is absolutely no justification that we're being paid essentially half of what a white male worker is being paid.”
