Equal pay day

Employees of Goodbody & Co. work at the stock brokerage's headquarters in Manhattan, N.Y., circa 1965.

It's Equal Pay Day. Women earn 84 cents for every dollar men make — or even less

4:55pm March 12, 2024

by Andrea Hsu

Women working full-time, year-round jobs earn 84 cents for every dollar men make, and part-timers make even less. Women have to work well into March before they earn what men made the year before.

On Tuesday, members of of the U.S. National Women's Soccer team, pictured at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, marked Equity Pay Day in a panel discussion with Vice President Kamala Harris.

National
Economy

On Equal Pay Day, women are trying to make a dollar out of 83 cents

2:40am March 16, 2022

by Vanessa Romo

It took women working year round full-time jobs 74 extra days to earn what men did in 2021. And the data is worse for women of color, who are disproportionately employed in low-wage jobs.

On Equal Pay Day, President Obama marks the designation of a women's equality national monument.

Economy
Politics & Government

As Hollywood Stars Can Attest, It's Good To Be A Man On Payday

7:37pm April 12, 2016

by Marilyn Geewax

Economic data show that men still make a dollar for every 79 cents a woman earns. A half-century ago, that figure was just 59 cents. So, much progress has been made, but a large wage gap persists.