It's Equal Pay Day. Time to make it happen!

[marym625]

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, in 53 years women's rights have pretty much gone nowhere. It's been over 100 years since the ERA was introduced and passed. 3 States held it back. Three. Three misogynistic States.

Today's email from Terry O'Neil

Dear Mary,

In 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law. Fast forward 52 years, and we're still far from equality. For women to make as much money as men did in 2014, they’d have to work until today – April 14.

The Paycheck Fairness Act (S. 862 / H.R. 1619) would bring us one step closer to equal pay for equal work. Tell your senators and representative to show their support today!

On average, women are paid 78 cents to every dollar a white man makes. If you're a woman of color, it's even worse: African American women are paid 64 cents, and Latinas just 54 cents, to every white man's dollar. Over a woman's working lifetime, she will be cheated out of $700,000-$2,000,000 in income due to the wage gap.

Write to your senators and representative to let them know you won't stand for this inequality!

The wage gap not only affects women's spending power and the economic well-being of their families, it penalizes their retirement security by creating gaps in Social Security benefits, pension amounts and their ability to save and invest.

At this rate, this year's high school graduates will be 61 by the time the wage gap closes. It's time for Congress to stand up for women's economic justice - starting by closing the gender and gender/race pay gaps that continue to hold women back.

When women have economic security, women succeed. And when women succeed, the world succeeds. Urge your senators and representative to support the Paycheck Fairness Act today! http://action.now.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11158&tag=2015EqualPayDay

For women's lives
Terry O'Neill
President

The link again for action
http://action.now.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11158&tag=2015EqualPayDay

National Organization For Women website
www.now.org

Help fight the fight for equality. An eternity of less than is inexcusable