Women working full-time make about 83 cents for every dollar a man is paid, but the gap grows wider for single mothers and varies widely from place to place.
and specializes in sex discrimination and workplace equality. She explains misperceptions around the pay gap, saying, “The most common narrative is that women do not have the same level of career ambition, and they don’t prioritize work over family or caregiver responsibilities.” But these assumptions don’t tell the whole story. “When you study ambition independently, we don’t necessarily find any discernible gender differences.
These inequalities are caused by both structural and cultural qualities of employment. “One [reason] is how employers treat mothers versus fathers or married men versus married women,” Grossman says.
Nonprofits in Dallas are working to support single mothers in this endeavor. ilooklikeLOVE, inc. provides empowerment programming and diaper assistance for single mothers in the area. Executive director Phillipa Williams witnessed the challenges of single motherhood firsthand, growing up in a single-mother household and later leading a single-mother household herself. She saw “the resilience and the tenacity of single mothers to take care of their households and to build thriving households.
“Mothers are having to make the choice between, ‘Do I buy diapers or do I buy food? Do I buy diapers or do I wait to pay the light bill?’ With this recent reduction of SNAP benefits being reduced again back to pre-COVID levels, now we are once again escalating that urgency to make these kinds of choices,” Williams says.
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