In 20 Years Of Equal Pay Day, Has The Pay Gap Narrowed?
In 20 Years Of Equal Pay Day, Has The Pay Gap Narrowed?
WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information.
Sign up for our newsletters
to stay up to date on the stories that matter.
It takes women about 16 months to make the same amount of money as men earn in a calendar year. Today is Equal Pay Day, marking the date when women would have matched men’s pay for 2015. NPR’s Marilyn Geewax speaks with Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson about women’s fight for equal pay, and how things have changed since the observance began in 1996.
Guest
- Marilyn Geewax, senior business editor for NPR. She tweets @geewaxnpr.
Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit
NPR.
9(MDAyOTcwNDAwMDEyODgyMDkwMTgwNzY3YQ001))