The following is a wrap up of AAUW Equal Pay Day media coverage:

• Delaware Governor Ruth Ann Minner (center) after the signing of the Equal Pay Day Proclamation on April 22, 2008 with Dr. Maisha Britt, AAUW Delaware State President (left) and Dr. Kathleen Jacobs, AAUW Delaware State EF Chair (right). The proclamation statement referenced the Educational Foundation’s 2007 study, Behind the Pay Gap.
• As Senate leaders yesterday observed Equal Pay Day, the White House threatened to veto a bill that would make it easier for victims of discrimination to sue their employers over unequal pay.
• How much longer must a woman work to make the same money as her male counterpart? It was a question answered Tuesday on the day dubbed “Equal Pay Day.” The Jefferson County branch of the American Association of University Women spoke to people at Jefferson Community College and collected signatures for the “Fair Pay Bill.”
• Women who are one year out of college and working full time earn only about 80 percent as much as their male colleagues, according to research conducted by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation.
• “Many years of family-friendly legislation in action, such as the Family and Medical Leave Act, Pregnancy Discrimination Act and policies such as flex time and telecommuting have increased options to create a win-win situation for women and their employers,” June Ford, co-president of the Elmira-Corning AAUW branch, said in a prepared statement. “But women’s paychecks still lag significantly behind those of men.”
• Organizers of the rally, which included the American Association of University Women, the League of Women Voters and the YWCA, pointed to the commonly held belief that it takes until April 22 — celebrated as Equal Pay Day — of a year for a woman to earn as much as her male counterpart did by Dec. 31 of the previous year.
• Patricia Sween, immediate past state president of the American Association of University Women, urges Sen. Coleman to Support Pay Equity in her letter to the editor.
• California Lutheran University faculty and students marked “Equal Pay Day” today by discussing income equity issues at an event sponsored by the school’s Center for Equality and Justice and the Thousand Oaks branch of the American Association of University Women.
• Members of the Chancellor’s Commission on the Status of Women [at the University of Mississippi] will be handing out flyers, stickers and candy bars at the Union today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. to commemorate Equal Pay Day.
• “Our main objective is to bring awareness, to make people see that there is still pay inequity in our country today,” said Julia Horne, president of the Danbury chapter of the AAUW.
• According to the American Association of University Women study “Behind the Pay Gap,” pay equity also affects college graduates. The study found that women earn only 80 percent of what men earn just one year after college. Even in a level playing field where women made the same choices of fields of study and occupation as men, the women earned less. Women fall further behind, dropping to only 69 percent of men’s earnings over a 10-year period.
• HARRIET LANCASTER, President, Greater Naples Branch, American Association of University Women, writes a guest commentary “Mark Equal Pay Day by supporting legislation.”
• Recent headlines reveal what many of us already know - Americans are witnessing the highest inflation rates seen in more than 20 years.
• Which helps explain her most recent volunteer venture: her role as president of the American Association of University Women’s Oregon chapter. The AAUW, founded in 1881, promotes education and equity for women and girls.