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Mothers Equal Pay Day - Edit for 2025
Mothers Equal Pay Day is the day that mothers in the U.S. must work until before they earn the equivalent of what men were paid the previous year.
Because women earn less, on average, than men, they must work longer for the same amount of pay. The wage gap is even greater for most women of color. Starting in 2022, data now includes part-time, seasonal, and gig workers, many of whom are essential workers piecing together multiple part-time jobs to get by.
More than 50 years after the passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, mothers working full time, year-round and part-time are paid 62 cents for every dollar paid to non-Hispanic, White men, according to census data from 2022.
Mothers who work full time year-round are paid 74 cents for every dollar paid to non-Hispanic, White men.
After two years of economic uncertainty due to the pandemic, research from Equal Rights Advocates new survey found that over 50% of Black and Latinx caregivers struggled making ends meet due to increased caregiving responsibilities and debt.
Here's what we learned:
- 84% expect childcare responsibilities will delay plans that could improve their financial security
- 38% said shifts in childcare led to reduction in work hours
- 17% were forced to leave their jobs due to childcare responsibilities and lack of childcare
- 31% said childcare responsibilities will delay their return to their previous level of employment
- 24% said childcare responsibilities will delay their achievement of long-term financial goals
- 14% anticipate deferring childcare
Equal Pay Day was originated by the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) 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.) Local Equal Pay Day activists organize rallies, lobby days, speak-outs, letter-writing campaigns, workshops, and meetings with employers, policy-makers, and enforcement agencies to promote effective solutions for closing the wage gap. Some wear red on this day as a symbol of how far women and minorities are "in the red" with their pay.
Equal Pay Today's website has a wealth of interesting information about women's pay
here
Also, the American Association of University Women (AAUW) has additional information about pay equity for all women and everyone in their "The Simple Truth" document
here
What you can do today: One of the contributing factors to pay inequity is that workers accepting job offers often don't know how to negotiate their pay. AAUW offers free pay negotiation training online and it's available to everyone. Everyone can sign up and take it
here.
Registration is not Required