About this Event
Each year, Equal Pay Day is recognized world-wide to bring greater awareness to the racial and gender pay disparities. In the United States, the April date symbolically marks how far into a new year the average woman must work to earn as much as the average white man did in the previous year.
Women still face an average wage gap of almost 20%, and many women of color face much larger gaps. That is why the Equal Pay Day Chicago coalition announces that we will hold Chicago’s 2021 rally to end the gender wage gap on the last equal pay day observed in 2021—Latina Equal Pay Day on October 29th—rather than on March 31st when Equal Pay Day, marking the average gap for women, is observed nationally.
With this move, we recognize that we will not close/ the gender wage gap until every woman is compensated with equal pay for equal work. While on average, women earn 82 cents for every dollar white men earn, women of color routinely experience much wider wage gaps due to the compounding effects of gender and racial discrimination, and in recent years, some of those gaps have widened. Asian American and Pacific Islander women make an average of 90 cents for every dollar paid to white men, but some ethnic subgroups make as little as 50 cents. Black women make 62 cents. Native women make 57 cents. And Latinas make just 54 cents for every dollar paid to white men. It takes more than 22 months of work on average for Latinas to earn what white men do in 12.
In Chicago and Cook County, where women of color hold the five highest elected offices—Mayor, Treasurer, City Clerk, President of the County Board, and County Clerk—as well as having women of color serving as the state’s lieutenant governor and comptroller—we are proud to center the experiences of women of color in the pay equity conversation.
Join us! Equal Pay Day Chicago is both a focal point to raise awareness of pay equality, and a platform for organizations to collaborate across the state. We invite you to be a part of this effort.
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Equal Pay Day Chicago will be Thursday, October 21.
WHO WE ARE
Equal Pay Day Chicago includes the following supporting organizations:
American Association of University Women (AAUW-Illinois), Illinois Federation of Business Women (IFBW), Professional Women’s Club of Chicago (PWCC), The Wood Law Office, LLC, AAUW Chicago AAUW Northwest Suburbs AAUW Palos Orland Branch AAUW Wheaton/Glen Ellyn ABA Commission on Women in the Profession Affinity Community Services Alpha Kappa Alpha, Chi Omega Omega Chapter Arise Chicago Bellows Law Group Blacks in Government Black Women Lawyer's Association Chicago Area Women's History Council Chicago Bar Association YLS Women in the Law Chicago Commission on Human Relations Chicago Foundation for Women Chicago NOW Chicago Women in Trades Chinese American Service League Coalition of Labor Union Women Cole Sadkin, LLC Cook County Commission on Human Rights and Women's Issues Cook County Office of the President Crux Creative DePaul University Women's Center DyMynd LLC Dominican University Domestic Abuse Stops Here ERA Illinois Enterprising and Professional Women - USA Federally Employed Women - Windy City Golan Christie Taglia LLP Healing to Action Housing Choice Partners Illinois Association of Hispanic State Employees Illinois Department of Human Rights Illinois Federation of Business Women's Clubs, Illinois League of Women Voters Illinois NOW Illinois State Bar Association Standing Committee on Women and the Law Indivisible Illinois Imani Pearls Community Development Foundation Jewish Women's Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago LULAC of Illinois Lawyers' Committee for Better Housing Littler Mendelson The Momentum Group Mujeres Latinas en Accion National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum National Council of Jewish Women, Illinois State Policy Advocacy Network National Employment Lawyers Association, Illinois Chapter NEIU Women's and Gender Studies Program North/Northwest Suburban NOW Northwestern University School of Law, Women's Leadership Coalition Organizing for Action Illinois Office of the Attorney General Illinois Office of the Lt. Governor Planned Parenthood of Illinois Professional Women's Club of Chicago Restaurant Opportunities Center Chicago Shriver Center UN Women Chicago Metropolitan Chapter US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission WeWill Women Employed Women's Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI)Women's Business Development Center Women's Leadership and Mentoring Alliance The Wood Law Office, LLC Working Women History Project YWCA Metropolitan Chicago
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, Chicago, United States
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