December 8 marks National Latina Pay Equity Day, a date created to draw attention to the pay inequities between white men and Latina women. This year, reports reveal the disparity has only gotten worse.

In previous years, part-time, seasonal, or migrant jobs were excluded from earning report calculations. Now that they have been included in this year's reports, the data shows that the pay disparity increases outside of full-time positions.

Mónica Ramírez, founder and president of Justice for Migrant Women, told NBC News that the problem is "worse than people think."

"We have to understand when we only tell a best-case scenario, which is a bad scenario," she said. "We are effectively erasing major groups of people who are most in need of the kinds of policy changes that we are pushing for."

For every dollar a white man earns, a Latina woman earns 54 cents, lower than the previously calculated 57 cents. This puts the pay disparity between white men and Latina women at 46 cents. The report also found that non-Hispanic white men who work full and part time average $50,624 per year, while Latinas working full and part time average $25,312. This adds up to $2,477 a month.

Jasmine Tucker, director of research for the National Women's Law Center, said that "nothing explains [the gap] away except racism and sexism."

"Latinas are not working less hard. It comes down to the racism and sexism that they are facing in workplaces," she said. "There are working women across our country, especially Latinas, whose contexts have been overlooked because of the seasonal or part-time nature of their work, but that doesn't erase the fact that they should be paid equally."

According to a 2019 study from the Center for American Progress, 41.2 percent of women are the sole or primary breadwinner for their household. The center's analysis of Census House Pulse Survey data shows 18.4 percent of Latinas were in a household that reported loss of employment income, while 19.4 percent did not have enough food to eat.

Low-wage workers have suffered the most under the Covid-19 pandemic, with a vast number of households reporting employment loss. But even when employed, Latina women lose money, as over the course of a 40-year career, they will make $1.19 million less than a white man.

"For other people who have wealth, your children will inherit land and homes and things," Ramírez said. "And our children are inheriting the impact of these sub-wages."