National Equal Pay Day represents the date in the current year through which women must work to match what men earned in the previous year, reminding us that we must keep striving for an America where everyone gets an equal day's pay for an equal day's work.
WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Proclamation -- National Equal Pay Day, 2012
Change is the first legislation that I signed into law, the Lilly Ledbetter Act that has a very simple principle -- (applause) -- women should get paid an equal day's pay for an equal day's work, and our daughters should be treated just like our sons when it comes to the workplace. (Applause.) That's what change is.
"We the people, everyone's created equal -- that's what we say, " he said.
The bass and guitar are locked in together in a clipped, guttural snap that's equal parts Falco and The Gap Band, while Finn's drums offer an overeager gallop at the end of every phrase.
That's equal to one-eighth of the GDP of the U.S. economy, the world's largest.
The German's feat saw him equal Nigel Mansell's all-time record of 14 pole positions in a season, set in 1992.
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That's equal to the box office revenue that films bring in at the nation's movie theaters.
That's equal to 6 million football fields, she said, although she says that's a conservative estimate.
And there were more landmarks to follow when Murphy's touch down saw him equal Leon Lloyd's club record of 19 tries in European rugby.
That court found, in her favor, that the Defense of Marriage Act violates the Constitution's equal protection clause and thus she shouldn't have had to pay an inheritance tax after her partner's death.
Women's contributions, skills and experience are equal to men's and must be rewarded accordingly.
To put that in perspective, India's wheat wastage each year is almost equal to Australia's entire production of wheat.
In the 1970s, the Democratic and Republican parties supported a wide array of women's rights policies, including an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, publicly funded child care and equal pay for women.
America has college museums (Harvard's and Yale's, especially) with encyclopedic riches that equal the world's greatest.
Holyrood's equal opportunities committee said they also had problems finding jobs and accessing services like healthcare.
That's equal to the output of a town of 60, 000 in a rich country.
In recent years, Britain's Equal Opportunities Commission has received more complaints from men than women.
That's equal to about 1 percent of all the cropland we have in this country.
The other thing that we do that's been made us successful is that it's equal dollar amounts.
Greece will leave the euro and everybody will become poor together - "at least it's equal" he says.
"We're a tale of two cities now, " Jack says in a tone that's equal parts resignation and frustration.
Certainly, at the high end of the market, China cannot equal India's supply of technical wizards with fluent English.
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Ugly as it was, it means Barca can equal Real's tally of 100 points by winning the last three games.
Still, the Government's Equal Pay Act states that pay between men and women doing the same job must be equal and transparent.
And whenever Fleury faltered, backup Tomas Vokoun was every bit Fleury's equal.
The government's Equal Marriage Bill is due to be published this month.
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It's equal or superior to some of the big commercial graphics programs.
That's equal to 19 million floppy disks, a banking industry record.
It's equal to the populations of Florida or greater Los Angeles.
Mr Berlusconi's equal-opportunities minister, Mara Carfagna, whose own relationship with Mr Berlusconi has long been the subject of gossip, dissociated herself from his remark about gays.
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