What Equal Pay Day Means NOW

Today is Equal Pay Day — a date no one wants to celebrate. It marks how many days into 2026 women must work just to match what men were paid in 2025. In 2025, the gender wage gap widened, with women earning 18.6% less than men per hour on average. But the widest gaps fall Read more …

NOW Observes Equal Pay Day 

March 25 is Equal Pay Day, the date calculated to be the point where women’s earnings catch up to what men earned in the previous year.   It’s a stark reminder of how far women still have to go to close gender and race-based pay gaps, and what NOW members can do to bring about gender Read more …

On Equal Pay Day, We Double Down on Economic Justice

Equal Pay Day is the annual reminder that women who work full-time, year-round take this long into the new year to earn as much as men did the year before.  In other words, to make 12 months of a man’s earnings, a woman has to work 14.5 months. In 2024, women earn just 84 cents Read more …