Today, April 10, 2018 is Equal Pay Day

Today is Equal Pay Day. It symbolizes how many extra days in 2018 women must work to equal what men earned in 2017.  In today's Council session, Nancy Navarro and I presented a Proclamation to Elissa Blattman, President Montgomery County NOW, in recognition of Equal Pay Day.

Even though the Equal Pay Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act passed more than five decades ago, women continue to suffer the consequences of inequitable pay differentials. In fact, year-round, full-time working women earn only 82 cents for every dollar earned by men.  The pay gap exists in every occupation, including those dominated by women. The pay gap is worse for women of color. Over a working lifetime, this wage disparity costs the average American woman and her family an estimated $700,000 to $2 million in lost wages, impacting Social Security benefits and pensions.

You can watch today's proclamation presentation here.