"'Double disadvantage': These California workers' pay gap is widest by far,"

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Women workers who are undocumented take home far less pay than any other demographic group in the country, according to a recent study titled Double Disadvantage.

In California, undocumented women make 58 cents for every dollar paid to all men, 44 cents compared to white men, and 67 cents for every dollar paid to all women. That’s worse than the typical gender pay gap between women and men, which is around 87 cents to the dollar.

Women without legal residency also make 87 cents for every dollar undocumented men make, according to the study by the Gender Equity Policy Institute, a Los Angeles nonprofit that analyzed data from the census bureau’s American Community Survey and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The study’s authors wanted to highlight the invisibility of undocumented women in the nation’s immigration debate, said Nancy L. Cohen, president of the Gender Equity Policy Institute.

“Undocumented women face the same kinds of gender bias and discrimination in the workforce that all women in the U.S. face,” Cohen said. “Essentially women are shut out of good economic opportunities because they are women. The difference is that undocumented women are also penalized for their immigration status and for their ethnicity.”...