Equal Pay Day symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year.

HOUSTON – Equal Pay Day symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year. Equal Pay Day originated with the National Committee on Pay Equity in 1996 as a public awareness event to illustrate the gap between men’s and women’s wages. It was originally called “National Pay Inequity Awareness Day” and changed to Equal Pay Day in 1998, according to the Washington-based National Committee on Pay Equity, a coalition of women’s and civil rights organizations and others devoted to eliminating sex- and race-based wage discrimination and to achieve pay equity. I believe we can achieve economic justice in this country — that means equal pay for equal work. #EqualPayDay pic.twitter.com/t7EH3xoSFQ — Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) March 24, 2021Equal work deserves equal pay, regardless of gender or race.

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