Equal Pay Day: Biden and Rapinoe push to close gender pay gap

Equal Pay Day – Wednesday, March 24 – marks how far into the new year a woman must work to earn the same as an average man earned the previous year.

United States President Joe Biden will host members of the US women’s national soccer team at the White House on Wednesday as part of his push to secure better pay for American women, who earn 82 cents on average for every dollar earned by men. Wednesday is Equal Pay Day, which marks how much longer into a new year US women on average must work to earn what the average man earned the previous year. The pay gap is far greater when calculated for Black women, who earn 63 cents on the dollar, and Latina women, who earn just 55 cents, and the gap likely widened during the coronavirus pandemic, experts say.