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!”
