Today is Equal Pay Day!

(I am not writing a transcript for this, but basically every man that interacts with this woman in the work place calls her a different derogatory term)
And why is it on a Tuesday? Because it is by Tuesday that women catch up to the wages earned by a man from the previous week.
via National Committee on Pay Equity.

Equal Pay Day was originated by the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) in 1996 as a public awareness event to illustrate the gap between men’s and women’s wages. The day, observed on a Tuesday in April, symbolizes how far into the year a woman must work, on average, to earn as much as a man earned the previous year. (Tuesday is the day on which women’s wages catch up to men’s wages from the previous week.) 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.

Jon Henner at Open Salon is putting together stories, blog posts, artwork, etc. on the impacts of equal pay. You can go contribute your story.