Organizations throughout Colorado recognized Equal Pay Day Tuesday, a day used to raise awareness about the gender pay gap. via MicahSmith_TV
“Equal Pay Day is the day that marks how many extra days into the new year the average woman would have to work in order to make the same amount that a man had made through December 31 of last year,” said Christina Huber, Metropolitan State University of Denver economics professor. “Women make about 80 to 83 cents on the dollar for every man.”
“Women tend to be overrepresented in the lower paying jobs, like nurses, daycare workers, elementary school teachers, those types of things. And men are more represented in the higher paying jobs,” she said. “If you take into account the fact that men and women are working very different types of jobs, that in itself covers about a third of the gender gap. But if we compare men and women working the same job, then you know, the gender gap shrinks to about 88 cents on the dollar.
“Certain males were definitely making, like, $100,000 more than certain women,” DuVivier said. “DU just said, 'There's nothing wrong with this picture.' So the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission actually brought the lawsuit on behalf of us against the University of Denver for equal pay.”“I feel very privileged that I had nine colleagues that were in the same boat, so I wasn't in this alone,” she said. “We did get some settlement money, I did get a raise.
“I was the first woman geologist in a company. I was the first woman in a class at Williams College. So I've been a pioneer, and I'm so glad that I had those opportunities. And I hope that they're making way for new women to come in. And from what I hear from my daughter, it's not all fixed, but it is better and so I'm excited about that,” DuVivier said.
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