Today is Equal Pay Day, an invented milestone created by those who want to push the myth that women make 77 cents for every dollar men make. The day symbolizes the point in the year that women will have earned the same amount of money that men earned in 2013.

But, of course, this marker is unnecessary. Equal Pay Day actually took place in January because women don’t make 77 cents to the dollar that men make.

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