As we celebrate Women’s History Month every March, we also recognize two days that symbolize women’s continued fight for equality: International Women’s Day and Equal Pay Day—the day of the year that a woman’s earnings would theoretically equal what a man made doing the same job the previous year. 

By our calculations, with women on average earning 83 cents per every dollar a man earned in 2024, Equal Pay Day is today, March 5.

That pay gap widens and narrows depending on a woman’s race, ethnicity, age, and on whether she is married or has children. But it persists across all of these demographics, and it persists in the political arena: 

Last year, men gave 63 percent of all money contributed to Congressional candidates, while women gave just 37 percent—which would put Equal Political Giving Day on June 1.

Again, these gaps widen and narrow depending on race, ethnicity and marital status, as well as the level of a race—the gap narrows (but does not disappear) in state and local races. We also know this gap persists for candidates: Last cycle, male Senate candidates outraised female Senate candidates nearly 3:1 in the most competitive races. Women candidates at all levels also raise a greater percentage of their funds from women donors.

WomenCount works to close the gender giving gap in politics by connecting women donors and women candidates, through a giving platform operated by women, featuring only women candidates, running at all levels—from school board to president.

Please help us keep working to close the gap in 2025 by donating $25 or more to WomenCount.