ESBWM will host a Chamber Afterhours in observance of Equal Pay Day Month on Thursday, April 14, 2016 at the Ventana Gourmet Grill in downtown Excelsior Springs. The event will be from 5 to 7 p.m.
Fashioned after the national BPW’s “Unhappy Hour”, women will receive drinks at a reduced price. Statistics show women on average earn 77 cents for every dollar paid to their male counterparts, reflecting a gap that results in hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost wages over the course of a career.
National Equal Pay Day is April 12. This date symbolizes how far into the year women must work in order to earn what men earned in the previous year.