Today is not Equal Pay Day for half of all American women. While April 4, 2017 is the date that symbolizes how far into 2017 the average woman would have to work to earn as much as the average man did in 2016, the date when the pay of single women catches up to mens pay is still months away. Today one out of every two women in the United States is unmarried divorced, separated, widowed, or never been married and for them, Equal Pay Day is May 31.

Fifty-four years after the Equal Pay Act was signed into law, women working full time are still earning 80 cents for every dollar a man makes. The earning disparities are even greater for unmarried women, who earn just 71 cents for every dollar a man makes, and 59 cents for every dollar a married man makes. This wage inequity varies widely from state to state: