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The Senselessness of Women Earning Less
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Could this be the underlying reason why so many countries, including the US, will not guarantee equal pay for women and men?
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Low Pay for Women of Color = More Clout Needed in Politics
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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.
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June 10 Marks Another Anniversary of the Equal Pay Act
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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.
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Big Apple Women Push to Get Out of the Red
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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.
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WAGE Project Preps Female Grads for ‘Smart Start’
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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.
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Equal Pay Isn’t Enough; Let’s Also Make It Fair
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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.
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Color Lines Create Widest Pay Gaps
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The worst pay disparities are not male-female, they are experienced by people of color, writes Melody Wilson.
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Republican Missteps Pave Way for Equal Pay Day
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The days leading up to the Equal Pay Day on Tuesday, April 17 brought a Romney campaign flub and a repeal of Wisconsin’s equal pay law.
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Budget Battle Wounds Women; Wage Gap Remains Same
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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.
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GOP’s Attack on Child Labor Threatens Our Daughters
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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.