Out & About: 'Unhappy Hour' draws attention to Equal Pay Day

Shirley McMarlin
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 1:30 p.m. | Wednesday, April 3, 2019 1:30 p.m.

(From left) Latrobe Business and Professional Women’s club members Angela Apple, Marsha St. Pierre and Deb Bowman have fun with photo props during the club’s “Unhappy Hour” calling attention to the gender wage gap, held April 2 at Four Seasons Brewing Co. & Pub in Latrobe.

Georgia Pavlik of Latrobe, a 57-year Latrobe BPW member, and her husband James Pavlik attended “Unhappy Hour,” hosted by Latrobe Business and Professional Women on April 2 at Four Seasons Brewing Co. & Pub in Latrobe.

Marsha Miller of Greensburg (from left), Angela Rose O’Brien of Greensburg and Deb Bowman of Latrobe toast to Latrobe Business and Professional Women’s “Unhappy Hour” calling attention to the gender wage gap, held April 2 at Four Seasons Brewing Co. & Pub in Latrobe.

New Latrobe Business and Professional Women’s Club members (from left) Heather Carns of Latrobe, Amanda Trout of Greensburg and Erica Stouffer of Latrobe attended the group’s “Unhappy Hour” on April 2 at Four Seasons Brewing Co. & Pub in Latrobe.

Latrobe Business and Professional Women’s Club members (from left) including president Nicole Purnell, recording secretary Deneen Krowicki and parliamentarian Theresa Rusbosin join Jean Calabrace, BPW District 3 director, at “Unhappy Hour,” a Latrobe BPW event calling attention to the gender wage gap, held April 2 at Four Seasons Brewing Co. & Pub in Latrobe.

Why would you get together for a drink with friends and then call it Unhappy Hour?

Latrobe Business and Professional Women made a point with their so-named gathering on April 2 at Four Seasons Brewing Co. in Latrobe.

Since 1996, Equal Pay Day has been held to mark how far into the next year the average woman must work to earn the same pay that the average man earned the prior year.

In 2019, that day was April 2.

BPW members and other equal pay supporters donned red to bring awareness to the gender wage gap and to efforts to achieve equality in the workplace for all women and minorities.

Some posed with a large poster of Rosie the Riveter, iconic World War II symbol of women’s empowerment in the workplace, topped with the words, “We Can Do It!”