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• ADA:  Equal Pay Day Rally  ----- (SAVE THE DATE)
  Equal Pay Day was established in 1996 as a public awareness event to illuminate the gap between men's and women's wages.  Equal Pay Day symbolizes the point into the next year to which a woman must work to achieve pay equity for the previous year.  Because women earn less, on average, than men, they must work longer for the same amount of pay.  The wage gap is even greater for most women of color.  Since Census statistics showing the latest wage figures will not be available until late August or September, National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) leadership decided years ago to select a Tuesday in April as Equal Pay Day.  (Tuesday was selected to represent how far into the work week women must work to earn what men earned the previous week.) 
  (April 17, 2012)