LIHUE — The public is invited to attend the Equal Pay Day proclamation ceremony hosted by the Kauai Committee on the Status of Women and partnering with the Zonta Club of Kauai and Zonta Club of Hanalei. The event will be held on April 10 at 12:30 p.m. at the Lihue Civic Center, Moikeha rotunda.
LIHUE — The public is invited to attend the Equal Pay Day proclamation ceremony hosted by the Kauai Committee on the Status of Women and partnering with the Zonta Club of Kauai and Zonta Club of Hanalei. The event will be held on April 10 at 12:30 p.m. at the Lihue Civic Center, Moikeha rotunda.
During the ceremony, Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr. will highlight the need to address the issue of equal pay for equal work, and encourage elimination of the gender pay gap.
The public is encouraged to wear “red” the symbol for “in the red” in pay which still exists today for equal work.
While the wage gap has improved since the 1960s, women still earn, on average, only 70 percent of what men earn.
Equal Pay Day symbolizes how far into the current year a women must work to earn as much as a man earned in the previous year, and is based on statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau.
“Recently at our January meeting, the women of the committee signed and submitted testimony to our state House of Representatives, in support of HB671 Relating to Equal Pay,” said Patricia Wistinghausen, KCSW’s chair. “The bill is meant to promote gender equality in the workplace and help close the pay gap between men and women. And as the motto goes, we want ‘Equal Pay for Equal Work’ though we aim for this to be more than just a saying, and to be put into practice throughout Hawaii.”
