In the absence of its ratification, women now do not have equal rights under the law. Hopefully, it won’t take 40 more years. The amendment fell three states short of being adopted into law nationwide by Congress’ arbitrary deadline.
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Some states have taken steps to bridge the gap. This is an example of justice delayed being justice denied. Carnegie Mellon professor Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever chronicled this in their book, Women Don’t Ask, finding that on average women seek for and get less money when they negotiate.
Equal Pay Day falls on April 4 this year, and purportedly represents how far into 2017 women must continue working to earn what their male counterparts earned last year.
Last year, on a weekly basis women earned 81.9 cents for every $1 that men were paid, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, also in Washington.
Missing 20 percent or more of a paycheck is a hard hit.
The good news is that women are an increasingly educated and accomplished segment of our society; they are becoming leaders in business, academia, and the political sphere, as well as leading their communities, nurturing the next generations, and creating new paradigms for balancing work and family life.
We need more people like Perry offering these common-sense truths to the public, and fewer people like those at the National Committee on Pay Equity who trade on people’s ignorance to push their political agendas. Women of color will have to wait even longer – 2124 for black women and 2248 for Latino women. “How much of that is discrimination and how much of that is other things, barriers that are out there still for women and girls to really achieve their full economic potential?” said Rep. Martha McSally, R-Tucson, the chairwoman of the working group. In the past year, it increased from the typical woman earning $0.75 to the typical man’s dollar to the $0.77-0.78 range. Its goal is to shed light on the importance of ending pay discrimination based on gender and encouraging equal pay for equal work.
Fifty percent of households with children have single mothers as the breadwinner.
In a move aimed at helping to ensure equal pay for women in city government, Mayor Mitch Lan… Less income limits total lifetime earnings that are reflected in reduced retirement savings and benefits. In fact, it’s widest for women with college degrees. And pay equity isn’t just a women’s issue-it’s a family issue.
Porteus said, “Right now the wage gap is still at 20 percent so we want to make sure the consumer feels the difference and by seeing that they know 20 percent still is a huge amount and we have a long way to go”. That’s the first Tuesday of the month, rather than the second Tuesday, as it has been in years past.
And the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will require employers with at least 100 employees to start providing pay data by gender, race and ethnicity next year. States can mirror or exceed federal efforts through legislative and executive action.
Gov. John Bel Edwards described Louisiana’s worst-in-the-nation pay gap as an embarrassment, …
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In April 2014, when Democrats still held the Senate, the bill failed to receive a single Senate Republican vote.It had 52 sponsors in the Senate but couldn’t amass the 60 votes needed to receive an open debate on the floor; the bill did not reach the House of Representatives floor for a vote that session.
