March 14 is Equal Pay Day 2023

This symbolic day denotes how far into the year women must work to be paid what men were paid the previous year. Equal Pay Day 2023 is on March 14 to represent the current state of the gender pay gap: 84% for full-time workers and 77% for all workers (including part-time and seasonal).  

National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality

President Biden and VP Harris intro’d the first-ever National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality, pledging to expand healthcare and employment access, prevent gender-based violence, and more.

What is International Women’s Day and when did it start?

International Women’s Day (IWD) takes place on 8 March every year. It began life as National Women’s Day in the United States back in February 1909. The following year, at the second International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen, Denmark, women’s rights activist Clara Zetkin called for an international women’s day to give women a greater voice to further their demands for …