TUESDAY APRIL 4TH ‘EQUAL PAY DAY’-EQUITY PAY GAP AWARENESS

Equal Pay Day
Tuesday April 4, marks Equal Pay Day for 2017. A Tuesday in the month of April that symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year according to The National Committee on Pay Equity, who originated the 'Equal Pay Day' in 1996 as a public awareness event to illustrate the gap between men's and women's wages. In June 1963, John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA), calling it a "significant step forward". The stipulation of the law sta...
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