UnlikeInternational Women’s Day, Equal Pay Day is supposed to change dates every year.
The date should be earlier and earlier every year, showing pay inequality decreasing between men and women.
2022 marks the earliest Equal Pay Day has been celebrated.
At this current rate, pay parity won’t happen until 2059 (via The Washington Post).
The pay gap widens when you start factoring in race.
Native American and Latinx women both make 50 cents to every man’s dollar.
Pay inequality wasn’t always the norm, though.
Since then, there have been some legal protections introduced to help end the gender pay gap.
Activists are also pushing to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
The argument is that employers should not be the only people who have access to salary data.
The central issue here is that salary histories often carry forward existing inequalities.
