“You don’t have to tell me about the statistics, I’ve lived it. I’ve been paid less throughout my career.” Sharon (not her real name) doesn’t share the shock at the disparity in women’s pay highlighted in the 2009 Labor Department study in to Women’s Earnings, for her the gender wage gap is a lived experience. […]
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5 Ways to Close the Gender Pay Gap on Equal Pay Day 2018
Equal Pay Day is on April 10 this year. The day marks how long into 2018 the average woman must work to earn what her male counterpart earned in 2017 alone. You can read about the gender pay gap in our blog “Women Still Don’t See Equal Pay for Equal Work,” but here are five […]
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Male Senators Voted for an Equal Pay Bill, Then Killed It When a Woman Left the Room
When Senator Jennifer Wexton stood before the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday and proposed SB419, an equal pay bill ensuring that women be paid as much as their male counterparts, the committee (led by a majority of male conservatives) passed the bill on an 11-5 vote. But as soon as Senator Wexton left the room, that […]