President Barack Obama officially declared Tuesday, April 9,
2013 as National Equal Pay Day. In a statement issued Monday,
April 8, Obama said, "Women, who make up nearly half of our
nation's workforce, face a pay gap that means they earn 23
percent less on average than men do. This disparity is even
greater for African-American women and Latinas. On National
Equal Pay Day, we recognize this injustice by marking how far
into the new year women have to work just to make what men did
in the previous one." Read More ›