In Business / April 2006
Equal Pay Day
Wednesday, April 19th is Equal Pay Day, the day Business and Professional Women mobilize to call attention to the wage gap in which women, on average, are paid 76 cents for every dollar paid to men. April is symbolic of the point into the new year that a woman must work in order to earn the wages paid to a man in the previous year. Because women, on average, earn less, they must work longer for the same pay. Over a working lifetime, this wage disparity costs the average American woman and her family an estimated $523,000 in lost wages.
“Poll after poll has demonstrated that unfair pay ranks as one of the top issues of concern for workingwomen. The wage gap affects women throughout their working lives and then follows them into retirement where their receive lower pension and Social Security benefits based on the salaries they received while working,” said Nancy Hurlbert, President of Business and Professional Women/USA (BPW/USA).
BPW members in Kanawha County will join hundreds of BPW local organizations across the nation by accepting a Proclamation from Charleston, Dunbar, South Charleston, and St. Albans, to call attention to the continuing wage disparity and to educate women and men about solutions to wage discrimination. In Kanawha County, BPW members will accept a Proclamation from the Mayors and city councils as well as from the governor, acknowledging Wednesday, April 19th as Equal Pay Day in Charleston and the state of West Virginia. The proclamation will encourage the business community to review their pay practices to ensure that women are not discriminated against in the county or state, by performing an equal pay self-audit.
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Femme Fair 2006
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