In Virginia, women working full-time are paid an average of 78 cents for every dollar paid to men.
Created in 1996, Equal Pay Day is held in April to symbolize how far into the year women must work to earn what men did the previous year. African American women on average earn only 63 cents and Latina women on average earn only 54 cents for every dollar earned by white, non-Hispanic men.
The new gender pay reporting legislation won't close the gap, according to the Women's Equality Party (WEP).
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Important to note on this issue is that the wage gap can not be explained by personal choices.
"With this 1-800 hotline, hopefully, employers will now see that if they are in fact not paying folks equal wages for equal work that there could be some repercussions in the future and clearly that is occurring in the state if we are 42nd", he said.
Trump talked up her support for equal pay during the Republican National Convention in late July, describing her father as someone who provided opportunities for women in the workplace and hired people with a "color-blind and gender-neutral" approach.
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Members of the Kauai Committee on the Status of Women collected to receive a mayoral proclamation on Equal Pay Day, an event observed to highlight wage discrimination against women.
While skeptics argue that the reasons between these differences in pay lies in the significant disparity of educated individuals within several communities of racial minorities.
"Women are in many cases now, the primary breadwinner in a family, and when they don't make enough money to sustain a good living, it has a ripple effect through our entire economy", she explained. She also said women in NY state are more likely to be represented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) occupations and those jobs would attract highly educated candidates.
That means she will have to stay in the workforce 10 years longer than a man in order to earn the same amount.
"We're here today wearing red to show how far women are behind men compared to the year before", said Kathy Flagstadt, voter services chair for the League of Women Voters of the Copper Country.
"Even the X-Men star Hugh Jackman jumped on board, tweeting, "#20 percent counts Equal pay for women - today and every day.
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