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Latina Women’s Equal Pay Day
Latina Women’s Equal Pay Day is the day that Latina women in the U.S. must work until before they earn the equivalent of what men were paid the previous year.
More than 50 years after the passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, Latinas working full time, year-round and part-time earn only 54 cents approximately for every dollar earned by non-Hispanic, White men.
Latina women who work full time year-round are paid 57 cents for every dollar paid to non-Hispanic, White men.
If current trends continue, Hispanic women will wait over 200 years for equal pay; Black women will wait over 100 years
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.
For more information about Equal Pay Day, see the National Committee on Pay Equity website
here
And 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 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. You can sign up and take it
here.
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