Women in the U.S. earn on average 81 percent of what men do, a fact commemorated April 2 by what’s come to be called “Equal Pay Day” -- the day to which a woman has to work to earn as much as a man did in the previous year.
And while a lot has changed in the 23 years since the National Committee on Pay Equity noted the date for the first time, one big thing hasn’t: The gender pay gap, as it’s called, has barely budged.
In 1996, the year the National Committee on Pay Equity first established “National ...