HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - PROCLAMATION - 03/21/2017 - PROCLAMATION DECLARING APRIL 4, 2017 AS EQUAL PAYPROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, Equal Pay Day is Tuesday, April 4, 2017; and
WHEREAS, this date symbolizes how far into 2017 women must work, in addition to
their 2016 earnings, to earn what their men colleagues earned in 2016; and
WHEREAS, Equal Pay Day falls on a Tuesday, which represents how far into the work
week, in addition to their earnings from the previous week, women must work to earn what men
earned the previous week; and
WHEREAS, the Equal Pay Act was signed in 1963; since then, the wage gap has
narrowed less than half a cent per year. At this rate of change, it was estimated in 2015 that
women won’t receive equal pay in Colorado until 2059; and
WHEREAS, the wage gap today amounts to a loss in wages of at least $450,000 over a
lifetime, and more disproportionately affects women of color, Latina women, and older women
employees in the US; and
WHEREAS, in Colorado currently, women make 81% of the wage their male
counterparts make for the same position; and
WHEREAS, closing the wage gap directly contributes to more healthy and stable
women and families.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Wade Troxell, Mayor of the City of Fort Collins, do hereby
proclaim Tuesday April 4, 2017 as
EQUAL PAY DAY
in the city of Fort Collins as a way to draw attention to the current gaps in wages paid to women
versus men.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the City of Fort
Collins this 21st day of March, A.D. 2017.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk