Though the Equal Pay Act of 1963 was a step in the right direction, much work remains in order to close the gender wage gap completely. Contact your elected officials and urge them to support ...

A woman who has worked for New Jersey Transit for more than 40 years has filed a $10 million lawsuit claiming the agency has discriminated against her for the past two years in violation of federal ...

Sixty years ago, on June 10, 1963, The Equal Pay Act, which prohibited pay discrimination on the basis of sex, was passed. Today, Black, Latina, Indigenous, and trans women still face wage gaps on ...

The Equal Pay Act, a federal law prohibiting pay discrimination, was signed into law by President John F. Kennedy on June 10, 1963, addressing what he called the "unconscionable practice of paying ...

The Equal Pay Act prohibits a company from paying unequal wages to men versus women for “equal work on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which ...

In 2010, the ACLU pushed for the Paycheck Fairness Act to get passed, writing in a statement that it was a much-needed enhancement of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which has largely been unenforced.

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Equal pay for equal work is already reality Payscale, which tracks compensation information, found that the controlled gender pay gap is $.99 for every $1 a man makes. That’s not 100%, but it ...

Lilly Ledbetter, a former Alabama factory manager whose lawsuit against her employer made her an icon of the equal pay movement and led to landmark wage discrimination legislation, has died at 86.

More than six decades after the U.S. banned gender-based pay discrimination, American employers continue to pay women less than men. The Equal Pay Act, a federal law prohibiting pay discrimination ...

This year, 2023 Black Women's Equal Pay Day coincides with the 60th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act and the March on Washington. Haniyah Philogene Jul 27, 2023 ...