Editor’s Note: Steve Chapman is on vacation. The following column was originally published in April 2007.

New Year’s Day is called that because it begins a new year, and Thanksgiving has that name because it’s an occasion for expressing gratitude. But Equal Pay Day, observed this year on April 24, is named for something that, we are told, doesn’t exist — equal pay for men and women.

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