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200892 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.200892 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2025-05 17 pages Gressler, Emma Calderon Martinez, Abraham Kaur, Harleen Barrett, The Honors College Dean, W.P. Carey School of Business Department of Management and Entrepreneurship School of International Letters and Cultures This paper explores the enduring racial gender pay gap, where white, non-Hispanic women earn on average $0.80 for every dollar earned by their male counterparts. Rooted in the intersectional systems of meritocracy, patriarchy, and racial hierarchy, this disparity reflects the structural and ideological forces that shape American society. In reaction to these hierarchies, feminist and anti-racist social movements throughout history have applied pressure to institutions to bridge this gap at the legislative and corporate levels. This has caused a pendulum effect, as progress is made, resistance follows, leading to attempts to preserve the status quo, which we see today in the reaction to equity-based policies. Sociology Business Employment Law Human Resources A Swinging Pendulum: The Racial Gender Pay Gap and the Pressures to Change