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Open Call: April 28th is Equal Pay Day
  Tomorrow, April 28th, is Equal Pay Day .  I’d like to put aside any feelings we have about how Equal Pay for Equal Work has been politicized far beyond the original message, and focus on the human reality of unequal pay. The lack of Equal Pay impacts every one of us, ...
Equal Pay Day
pay-equity.org — qual 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. The day, observed on a Tuesday in April, symbolizes how far into the year a woman ... (more) Equal Pay Day
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Today is Equal Pay Day!
Feministing — ... Jon Henner at Open Salon is putting together stories, blog posts, artwork, etc. on the impacts of equal pay. You can go contribute your story. ...

Linda Basch: Feels like Spring: Souter, 100 Days and Equal Pay
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... they highlighted the importance of flex-time policies for rectifying the current penalization of women saddled with care-giving responsibilities. Open Salon drew a portrait of the human cost of pay inequity through the personal stories of those who have felt its impact. Heidi Brown at Forbes Women continued this humanizing trend by retelling the story of ...

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