Disabled Women’s Equal Pay Day

There will be a Disabled Women’s Equal Pay Day social media storm on October 23, 2025 at 2pm ET/11am PT. This social media storm will help raise awareness about the pay gaps experienced by disabled women and some necessary policy reforms to address one of the largest wage gaps experienced by women workers. Our shared hashtags for the day will be #DisabledWomensEqualPayDay and #DisabledWomensEPD.

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56 cents for “all earners” for full-time year-round + part-time and part-year
68 cents for full-time, year-round earners

On this day, we recognize that for every dollar earned by all nondisabled men, disabled women earners (full-time, part-time, and part-year), bring home a mere 56 cents due to a long history of ableism, institutionalization, and workplace discrimination. While disabled workers are especially likely to work part time, even when looking at disabled women working full time and year round, they are still only paid 68 cents for every dollar paid to a nondisabled man working full time, year round. Like all gender pay gaps, the wage gaps for disabled women of color are even wider due to the intersectional and compounding nature of sexism, racism, and ableism.

Disabled women face massive time and financial barriers that nondisabled workers do not, with few supports to access work, healthcare, childcare, or accommodations. Disabled women are overrepresented in minimum and sub-minimum wage, poverty-level jobs. This year, disabled women also are facing huge cuts to employment and services that we simply cannot measure because even our ability to track cuts is being blocked, making Disabled Women’s Equal Pay day more important than ever.

Policy reforms are necessary to remove ableist barriers that trap disabled women in poverty and transform systems that perpetuate the egregious wage gap for disabled women. To address these inequalities, this year’s calls to action for Disabled Women’s Equal Pay Day are directed both at Congress and the Administration:

End segregated workplaces and subminimum wages for disabled women — it’s time for competitive integrated employment.
- Tell Congress: Pass the Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act (TCIEA) now.
Stop dismantling our healthcare – we need pay equity to be able to care for ourselves and our families.
- Tell Congress: Reverse devastating Medicaid cuts and pass the Protecting Healthcare and Lowering Costs Act
End the Trump Administration’s baseless attacks on disabled workers, equal employment opportunities, and workforce inclusion.
- Tell the Department of Labor: Do not finalize your rescission of Executive Order 11246 regulations or roll back critical Rehabilitation Act Section 503 protections.

Join Equal Pay Today and our partners around the country for a social media storm on Thursday, October 23 at 2pm ET/11am PT.

The Truth Behind the Pay Gap: Advocating for Disabled Women

Equal pay isn’t just a slogan—it’s a fight for justice. Listen to Noreen Farrell and Sylvia Torres-Guillien (Executive Director & Director of Litigation, Disability Rights Legal Center) discuss the harsh realities of pay inequality for disabled women and the actions we can take.