Today’s a red outfit or accessory day, my friends. A while back I wrote a post, It’s Time to Make It Dollar for Dollar, about the way women’s pay continues to lag behind men’s. Each year, the National Committee on Pay Equity sponsors an Equal Pay Day to draw attention to that gap:

Equal Pay Day is observed in April to indicate how far into each year a woman must work to earn as much as a man earned in the previous year. Tuesday symbolizes the day when women’s wages catch up to men’s wages from the previous week.

NCPE encourages everyone to “Wear RED on Equal Pay Day to symbolize how far women and minorities are ‘in the red’ with their pay!“