Equal Pay Day: Surprising gender pay gap opinions held by women

Some regard this Tuesday, April 4, as Equal Pay Day, or “how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year.” And yet even though most women are convinced that other women are getting paid less than men for doing the same work, new polling data show that most women also believe their own employers treat men and women equally.

In other words, many women have come to believe the myth, touted by celebrities and politicians, that other women actually make 79 cents for every dollar a man makes for doing the same work. However, most don’t believe that it impacts them at their own jobs.