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“March 14 is the launch of an entire year of Equal Pay Days that will highlight pay gaps experienced by women of different races, ethnicities, sexual orientation and gender identity, and by those who are also mothers,” said Noreen Farrell, the chair of the advocacy group Equal Pay Today.įor instance, the group notes that Equal Pay Day this year, relative to the average earnings of a White man, will come on April 5 for women who are Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders, on July 27 for Black women, on October 5 for Latina women and on November 30 for Native and Indigenous women. The actual marking of Equal Pay Day in March for women overall is largely symbolic, in part because the date varies widely by race and ethnicity, occupation, geography, age and other issues. The bad news is that Equal Pay Day is even still a thing in 2023, since pay equity remains a long way off.Įqual Pay Day varies widely for different groups

Back in 2005, for instance, Equal Pay Day was April 19. And Equal Pay Day, inaugurated in 1996 by the National Committee on Pay Equity, now arrives about a month earlier than it used to. The good news is the pay gap has been shrinking, albeit slowly, over the past two decades. When part-time, seasonal and gig workers are also counted, the gap grows wider - and the time to catch up gets longer. That’s based on the most recent estimate of the gender pay gap from the Census Bureau, which was 84 cents among full-time, year-round workers.

That means the average full-time working woman has to work about two and a half months more than the average man just to bring in what he earned last year.

This year, Equal Pay Day falls on March 14. The US gender pay gap: Why it hasn't narrowed much in 20 years