Women’s Equal Pay Day marks the day into the year on which it takes for women on average to earn what men did in 2019.

That’s 15 months. Or, if you look at a typical 9:00-5:00 workday, women start working for free at 2:40 p.m.

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Equal Pay Day 2021 Marks Progress, Challenges by Faith Morrison
Women earn less than men do, on average. This difference, the gender wage gap, is approximately 18 percent across all workers. The gap is even larger for women of color. The problem is present even just one year from graduation. Just one year from college graduation, women make seven percent less than men, even after accounting for college major, occupation,
economic sector, hours worked, marital status, GPA, type of undergraduate institution, institutional selectivity, age, geographic region, and months unemployed since graduation (“The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap, AAUW, 2018).

In 2021, March 24th is Equal Pay Day (averaged for all women), a day that symbolizes the extra days women must work to catch up to what the average man earned the previous year. In 2020 Equal Pay Day was March 31, and in 2019 it was April 2, indicating that incremental progress is occurring. When Equal Pay Day is January 1, the work will be done. Red is worn on Equal Pay Day as a symbol of how far women and minorities are "in the red." Join the Copper Country League of Women Voters and other supporters for a "Red Out" to recognize Equal Pay Day.

Find out what you can do to help close the gap (http://www.equalpaytoday.org/equal-pay-day-
2021).