Lansing Community College honored women during an event for National Equal Pay Day Tuesday. The day is all about calling awareness to the fact that in the United States, working women make an average of 74 cents for every dollar men make.
Equal Pay Day is held on April 4th to symbolize how far into this year the average American woman has to work before her combined 2016 and 2017 pay equals what a man made last year.
Lisa Webb Sharpe, Associate VIce President, Academic and Student Affairs, Lansing Community College said, "Most people don't know there's a huge pay gap that women make 20% less of what men make in this nation and we think we need to make deliberate steps to eliminate the pay gap. Here in Michigan the pay gap is even larger - woman make 26% less than men and in minority communities the gap is even larger."
Lansing Community College is hoping to help its female students understand which careers have better opportunities for women.
