AANHPI Women’s Equal Pay Day
April 7, 2025
83 cents for "all earners" (full-time, year-round + part-time and part-year)
97 cents for full-time, year-round workers
Join NAPAWF, EPIC, Equal Pay Today, advocates, lawmakers, and community members from across the country on April 7 to mark AANHPI Women’s Equal Pay Day.
Join the national social media storm at 2pm ET/11am PT to raise awareness about the wage gaps that impacts AANHPI women and their families.
On this day, we highlight the fact that, according to 2023 Census data, on average, when looking at all working Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander women, AANHPI women are paid only 83 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men.
But, that's only part of the #AANHPIEqualPay story. For certain communities, the wage gaps are far greater. Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women in particular face tremendous economic disparities, including stark wage gap inequities that can vary widely by state. For example, Bangladeshi, Nepalese, and Burmese women are some of the lowest paid people in the nation. For this AANHPI Women’s Equal Pay Day, the advocacy community’s shared calls to action will include:
continuing to urge federal lawmakers to support the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would modernize and strengthen the Equal Pay Act of 1963 to help close the wage gap experienced by AANHPI women; and
calling attention to the need for federal agencies to disaggregate income and wealth data so that we can better tailor economic justice solutions for key communities, such as Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
Our shared hashtag for the day will be #AANHPIEqualPay. Thank you for joining us this year in marking this important day.
AANHPI Women’s Equal Pay Day co-leads,
NAPAWF I EPIC I Equal Pay Today