Equal Pay Day was a day that was originally conceived by the National Committee on Pay Equality in 1996 as a way to more concretely demonstrate the gender wage gap. New York congressperson Carolyn Maloney held a hearing in honor of Equal Pay Day today, examining how gender inequalities perpetuate economic harm. Testifying at the hearing was one Megan Rapinoe.
Here’s Rapinoe’s full remarks from her initial statement:
Equal Pay and equality in general is a deep and personal passion of mine. And what we’ve learned and what we continue to learn is that there’s no level of status and there’s no accomplishment or power that will protect you from the clutches of inequality.