 So black women have to work all the way into July of this year to make what white non-Hispanic men would have made in 2023 alone. This is acknowledgement of that pay gap. Advocates are pressing Congress to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would protect all workers against retaliation for discussing their pay. It would also ban the use of prior salary history when setting wages and require the federal government to collect pay data from employers, making it easier to root out disparities.