Tuesday, April 14, 2015, Is National Equal Pay Day

This date symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year.

Equal Pay Day was originated by the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) in 1996 as a public awareness event to illustrate the gap between men’s and women’s wages.

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that women of color will become the majority of women in the United States by 2045. Women make up nearly half of our Nation’s workforce and are primary breadwinners in 4 in 10 American households with children under age 18. Yet from factory floors to boardrooms, their talent and hard work are not reflected in their paycheck. Today, women on average are paid only 78 cents for every dollar a man earns. For women of color, that pay gap is even wider. April 14th commemorates National Equal Pay Day and renews our commitment to stamping out the wage gap.