Disabled Women’s Equal Pay Day
About this event
Disabled Womens Equal Pay Day is the date that symbolizes how far into the year disabled women in the U.S. must work to earn what men earned in the previous year. In 2025 tracking this data for disabled women began.
Because women earn less, on average, than men, they must work longer for the same amount of pay. The wage gap is even greater for most women of color and disabled women. Data now includes part-time, seasonal, and gig workers, many of whom are essential workers piecing together multiple part-time jobs to get by.
56 cents: that’s approximately how much disabled women who work full time year-round + part time and part year are paid for every dollar paid to non-Hispanic, White men, according to census data from 2022.
68 cents: that’s approximately how much disabled women who work full time year-round are paid for every dollar paid to non-Hispanic, White men.
Equal Pay Day was originated by the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) in 1996 as a public awareness event to illustrate the gap between men's and women's wages. (It was originally called “National Pay Inequity Awareness Day” and changed to Equal Pay Day in 1998.) Local Equal Pay Day activists organize rallies, lobby days, speak-outs, letter-writing campaigns, workshops, and meetings with employers, policy-makers, and enforcement agencies to promote effective solutions for closing the wage gap. Some wear red on this day as a symbol of how far women and minorities are "in the red" with their pay.
For more information about Disabled Women's Equal Pay Day, see Equal Pay Today's Disabled Women's Equal Pay
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Equal Pay Today's website, which has a wealth of interesting information about women's pay, is
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Also, the American Association of University Women (AAUW) has additional information about pay equity for all women in their "The Simple Truth" document
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