For women of color, Equal Pay Day 2016 still hasn’t come. This inequity shows how far we still have to go in gaining political representation. Our numbers are too low in U.S. Congress and even worse in state government.
Fifty-three years later, a persistent gender wage gap leaves the door open to other legislative efforts and has spawned such annual rituals as Equal Pay Day. This year, mothers’ equal pay day was May 16.
In an Equal Pay Day gathering at New York’s City Hall on April 8 speakers proposed a variety of ways to close the gender pay gap. Public Advocate Letitia James said the City Council needs local control over its minimum wage.
The workshops get young women who face their first jobs to think seriously about salaries. The big-picture focus is on narrowing a gender wage gap that last year left U.S. women–statistically speaking–working until April 8 of this year, Equal Pay Day, to catch up with men.
On April 9 we mark Equal Pay Day, a time for spurring the modernization of the Equal Pay Act. But let’s not stop there. Let’s also attack the problems of low-paid work and volatile scheduling that hold back millions of female workers.
Obama this week stood up for Medicare, which faces cuts in a GOP proposal for 2012. On Equal Pay Day, the Wall Street Journal ran a column saying women’s wages are just fine, spurring an action alert by the Women’s Media Center.
It’s Equal Pay Day, a time to remember those 600 extra hours that women work each year to catch up with male wages. For female teens exploitation at work is advancing, as GOP lawmakers in several states try to relax child labor laws.
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