{"id":52613,"date":"2021-09-18T06:11:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T06:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=52613"},"modified":"2021-09-18T06:11:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T06:11:29","slug":"international-equal-pay-day-september-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/international-equal-pay-day-september-18\/","title":{"rendered":"International Equal Pay Day | September 18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>International Equal Pay Day<\/strong>&nbsp;is celebrated on&nbsp;<strong>18 September<\/strong>. The inaugural edition of the day was observed in the year&nbsp;<strong>2020.<\/strong>&nbsp;The day aims to achieve equal pay for work of equal value and break the walls against all forms of discrimination, including discrimination against women and girls. The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to observe September 18 as International Equal Pay Day, on November 15, 2019, which was introduced by the Equal Pay International Coalition (EPIC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo build momentum around the urgent need to address the gender pay gap,\u201d the United Nations observes the International Equal Pay Day on September 18 each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>History of the day:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to observe September 18 as International Equal Pay Day, on&nbsp;<strong>November 15, 2019,<\/strong>&nbsp;which was introduced by the Equal Pay International Coalition (EPIC). The resolution was co-sponsored by a total of 105 member states. As well as recognising the contribution of workers\u2019 and employers\u2019 organizations, and businesses, the resolution also acknowledged the work and contribution of EPIC to achieving equal pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Equal Pay Day&nbsp;is celebrated on&nbsp;18 September. The inaugural edition of the day was observed in the year&nbsp;2020.&nbsp;The day aims to achieve equal pay for work of equal value and break the walls against all forms of discrimination, including discrimination against women and girls. The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to observe September 18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":52614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1417],"tags":[1744,1556],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-52613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-september-2021","tag-equal-pay-day","tag-international-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52615,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52613\/revisions\/52615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52613"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=52613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}