BOULDER, Colo. — Thursday is Equal Pay Day in the United States, and a University of Colorado Boulder professor is sharing her story with Denver7 about being paid significantly less than her male colleagues.
Equal Pay Day marks how far into the current year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year. According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, women currently make 82 cents for every dollar a man makes.
In 2024, CU Boulder settled a class action lawsuit brought against them by a group of 386 female faculty at the university…