The next
Equal Pay Day is Tuesday,
April 20, 2010. This date symbolizes how far into 2010 women must work to earn what men earned in 2009.
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.
Since Census statistics showing the latest wage figures will not be available until late August or September, NCPE leadership decided years ago to select a Tuesday in April as Equal Pay Day. (Tuesday was selected to represent how far into the work week women must work to earn what men earned the previous week.) The date also is selected to avoid avoid religious holidays and other significant events.
Because women
earn less, on average, than men, they must work longer
for the same amount of pay. The wage gap is even greater
for most women of color.
For more
information, see NCPE's Equal
Pay Day Kit
or contact the NCPE.
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Next
Equal Pay Day:
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Wear
RED on Equal Pay Day
to symbolize how far women
and minorities are "in the red"
with their pay!
On previous
Equal Pay Days, grassroots organizing on fair
pay swept local communities. Women's business and professional
associations, labor groups, civil rights organizations
and others committed to equal pay coordinated activities
to raise awareness about how to solve wage inequity.
Equal Pay Day 2008: NCPE held a press conference on Capitol Hill, an event chaired by CLUW in support of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
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release
Equal Pay Day 2007: NCPE teamed
with Women Work
and BPW-USA
to stage a rally for equal pay on the West Lawn of the
US Capitol on April 24.
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Press
release
Equal Pay Day 2006: NCPE joined forces with
The WAGE Project to encourage the formation of WAGE
Clubs.
Equal Pay Day 2005:
press event
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