What Equal Pay Day means: Kelly Byrne, BarackObama.com


Today is Equal Pay Day. You might be surprised to find out how few of your friends know why it falls on April 14th this year — even among people who agree that women deserve to be paid the same as men.

It’s not a date just picked out of a hat — Equal Pay Day represents how far into a new year that full-time working women have to work to earn as much as men did the previous year: 104 days.

On average, women still earn only 78 cents for every dollar a man makes, and that’s even lower for Latinas and African American women.

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#EqualPayNow.Equal Pay Day falls on April 14th this year -- spread the word.