Equal Pay Day Is April 4 This Year- Here’s Why That Matters

African American, Hispanic, and Native American women nearly always earn less than white and Asian women, meaning Equal Pay Day for these groups would fall on dates later than April 4.

“Some have decried the “celebration” of this symbolic day (“‘Happy Equal Pay Day, ‘ said No Woman Ever”).

Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg said women in the same job earn about 20% less than men on average.

“And finally, Latinas are by far the lowest paid workers”.

Just past year, the USA median income for women was just 80 percent of the median income for men, according to the American Association of University Women.

“It’s not just about the pay check inequality but it’s the access to other assets that allow you to be able to thrive”. It wasn’t even really equal work; as he couldn’t always figure out when to change cameras, or what page of copy he was on.

Higher-paid women suffer bigger gender wage gaps.

According to the National Partnership for Women & Families, women in South Dakota lose a combined total of more than $2 billion a year because of the wage gap.

Lawmakers in Hartford are taking the occasion to push for legislation they say will help to close that gap. “All of us – men, women, employers, employees, colleagues – can step up and become stronger allies for women”, she adds. That means a woman would have to work until she was 70 to earn as much as a male colleague made by age 60.

April 4 was dubbed “Equal Pay Day” in 1996 by the National Committee on Pay Equity to raise awareness on the wage gap between women and men. For every dollar that a man earned on average, a woman made 81 cents.

Female gig workers were most drawn to professional freelance work (such as work offered on platforms like Upwork), direct selling (selling makeup for Mary Kay, for instance), and service work (through websites such as Rover.com or TaskRabbit). Um, yes! We’re aware the wage gap is not that simple.

Last year, Rep. Maloney released his updated plan to “Expand Economic Opportunities for Women”. When men enter a woman-dominated field like teaching or nursing, they actually earn more than women, the EPI noted.