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News Articles - Equal Pay Day
April 21, 2008
Read the original article at The Charleston Post and Courier.
Tuesday is Equal Pay Day, the day that marks how far into the year a woman has to work to earn the same amount of money earned by a typical man the year before.
Women's Voices Women Vote, a nonprofit, nonpartisan group in Washington, says unmarried women are hardest-hit by pay inequity, "resulting in a woman on her own having to work until September 27 of the following year to earn as much money as a typical man makes," president Page Gardner said in a statement.
A study commissioned by the group found that unmarried women earn 56 cents for every dollar a married man earns and that unmarried women typically live on $37,264 per year, about $6,000 less than unmarried men ($42,843) and nearly $30,000 less than married men ($66,646).
Read the study at www.tinyurl.com/5fldqg. Find out more about Women's Voices Women Vote at www.wvwv.org.