The gender pay gap gets a lot more play than the gender wealth gap: 145 times more results in a Google search, to be exact.*

But the gender wealth gap is way more important.

The gender pay gap is how much money women earn in comparison to men. The gender wealth gap is how much money women have (or keep) in comparison to men.

The gender pay gap for women “overall” is 82 cents to every white man’s dollar. But let’s be more specific. Some more detailed pay gaps are:

There’s less specific data for the gender wealth gap (seriously, why aren’t people paying more attention to this?), but we know that for every dollar a white man owns:

Maybe the gender pay gap gets more play because it feels like the most readily addressable way to close the gender wealth gap. Low-hanging fruit, and all that. But it’s not enough on its own, because there’s so much more at play than just how much we get paid.

So what are the other pieces of the puzzle that we should be talking about? What’s contributing to the difference between how much women earn and how much we keep?

They’re not all things we can fix by ourselves, or at least easily. Systems take time to dismantle, after all.

But there are actions we can take.

(And that’s the reason why we launched a money membership last month, to close these money gaps.)

Let’s step through some of the causes of the widening gender wealth gap and what we can do about them.

CO-FOUNDER & CEO