“Currently, women’s annual earnings are 78 percent of men’s earnings – or for every dollar a man earns, you earn 78 cents. Last year the figure was 77 cents – women gained one cent. Women face a wage gap at every educational level. Women of color are impacted even more. African-American women earned 30 percent less and Latinas earned 42 percent less than did men as a whole.”

— Marjorie Broward, American Association of University Women, commenting on Equal Pay Day, April 28, 2009 *

* I would have posted this yesterday but I was busy trying to earn my 78 percent.