LGBTQIA+ Equal Pay Awareness Day

June 15 marks LGBTQIA+ Equal Pay Awareness Day. This day is an opportunity to spread awareness about wage gap data on LGBTQIA+ workers, as well as the general disparities that continue to affect the LGBTQIA+ communities. LGBTQ+ workers are paid approximately 90 cents...

Today is (Another) Equal Pay Day

Today we once again recognize the inequities that cause women to be paid less than men are paid.  The gendered impact of the pandemic has made it clear: The gender pay gap is a systemic problem, and we need corrective policy to fix it. Over the last two years, the...

Today is, Once Again, Equal Pay Day

Earnings listed are compared to every dollar made by a white non-Hispanic man. Data is from National Women’s Law Center, based on 2019 (that is, pre-COVID-19) earnings. Fifty-eight years after President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into federal law, we...

Equal Pay is a Racial Justice Issue

American women overall are paid only 80 cents to every dollar a man takes home, and the wage gap gets worse when factoring in race—and even wider when you add motherhood as a factor in addition to gender and race. Here in Pennsylvania, Black moms only make 55 percent...
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