Equal Pay Day 2016: Bringing women closer to wage equality

LARAMIE – Tuesday was National Equal Pay Day, a national day of action against unfair pay.

According to the Wyoming Women’s Foundation, April 12th represents the point into the new year that women must work in order to earn the wages paid to men in the previous year. On a national level,

women are paid only 79 cents for every dollar a man is paid, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Wyoming W...