Among the bills drafted, Lawmakers hope for both penalties for work places who discriminate or pay unequally, and rewards for those who uphold equal pay.
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April 12 is Equal Pay Day, which serves as a reminder that equal pay for women still is not a reality.
“We need equal pay and we need it now”, Arquette told CNN’s Paula Newton Tuesday. Job recruiting startup Hired released new data on its findings of equal pay in Silicon Valley, and found that companies on average offer women 3 percent less than men for the same roles.
“Just like states already have unemployment insurance and workers compensation, we can set up a program similar to that here in Washington state, and we’re working very hard to make that happen”, says Watkins. An African-American woman who will lose $877,000. In New York state, women earn 87 cents for every dollar paid to men.
The U.S. economy could grow by $2.1 trillion more over the next decade if the gender pay gap narrowed significantly, according to the McKinsey Global Institute.
Women with less than a high school diploma on average make 80% of what men make, AAUW reports.
It was 1963 when President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, but more than 50 years later, women are still getting shortchanged when it comes to equal pay for equal work.
“Women are disproportionally employed in low-wage jobs and are more likely than men to live in poverty”.
Several other celebrities also voiced their support for pay equality on social media, including singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, actress Connie Britton, soccer star Hope Solo, and actor Mark Ruffalo.
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As a top tech exec, Rebecca Miller-Webster champions gender equal pay at her company Polymathic, a cause rooted in her own experiences at another digital firm.
