It’s 2024 and women are still fighting for equal pay

In the continuous fight for equal wages, women can lose up to $1.6 trillion per year because of the gender pay gap.

While girls may run the world, women are still fighting for equal pay in 2024. March 12 is Equal Pay Day, which marks yet another year of women fighting for equal wages in the workplace. Though the battle for equal compensation amongst women in the workplace occurs 365 days — or in this case, 366 days out of the year, the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) created “Equal Pay Day” in 1996 to raise public awareness of the gap between men and women’s pay. 

“This date symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year,” .

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