It’s Been a Wild Ride for National Pay Inequality Awareness Day
“Women in the U.S. earn on average 81 percent of what men do, a fact commemorated Tuesday by what’s come to be called ‘Equal Pay Day’ — the day to which a woman has to work to earn as much as a man did in the previous year. And while a lot has changed in the 23 years since the National Committee on Pay Equity noted the date for the first time, one big thing hasn’t: The gender pay gap, as it’s called, has barely budged.”