April 14, 2026 is Equal Pay Day in Ontario!
Tuesday April 14, 2026 is Equal Pay Day in Ontario. It symbolizes how much longer into 2026 the average woman must work to earn what the average man did in 2025.
This year we’re mobilizing in solidarity with childcare workers and other workers in the care economy.
Without the care economy, there is no economy. Without care work, workers can’t work. But women’s underpaid care work continues to support and act as the shock absorber for the rest of the economy. Enough is enough. Care counts! Wages count! Show us the money!
HOLD THE DATE to join our rally in downtown Toronto on Tuesday April 14, 2026 starting 12:15pm
- Hear from leaders from the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care and the Association for Early Childhood Educators Ontario
- Hear from labour leaders and leaders of community service organizations who know their members rely on childcare in order to do their work
- Hear from parents struggling to find spaces and who know that we’re far from reaching the $10-a-day childcare promise
Keep checking back. We will be posting further details about the rally and posting our campaign kit in the days ahead.
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As always, take action in your communities and tell us what you’re doing.
Listen to the voices of women in the care economy: Voices of Women Workers
And know you are part of the majority. 85% of Ontarians want action on women’s economic equality.
Learn more about the EPC’s Closing the Gap Poll
Meet the Coalition
Since 1976, the non-partisan Equal Pay Coalition has been the main advocate for women’s pay equity in Ontario.
We unite 40+ women’s groups, trade unions, community groups and business organizations representing hundreds of thousands of women and gender diverse people across the province.
About the Coalition
Discover the issue
The pay gap harms all women—but some have it worse.
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Pay gaps are a human rights violation. It’s time we all speak up.
Write your MPP
We’ll be posting a letter soon for you to send to your MPP on Equal Pay Day 2026.
Attend an event
We’re mobilizing to make change. Join us!
The pay gap affects Ontario women differently.
Women in Ontario face a 32% pay gap on average. But if you’re a women with disabilities, an immigrant, Indigenous, or racialized, it’s much wider.
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