The passage coincides with National Equal Pay Day (April 12).
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Women starting their careers today will make about $430,000 less than a man in the same job.
Women in tech roles are getting paid less than men and asking for lower salaries – but that trend might be changing.
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. Carli Lloyd, along with four teammates from the U.S. women’s soccer team, filed a complaint in March with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging that U.S. Soccer unfairly pays them far less than it pays members of the men’s team.
“One of the contributing factors is that men tend to negotiate when say they are given a salary package and women don’t”, Buchan said.
Check out the entire segment below. According to the National Women’s Law Center, working mothers make about 70 cents for every dollar working fathers make. To add insult to injury, minority women on average have a much worse deal.
President Barack Obama has made equal pay a high priority, though the gender pay gap in the United States has narrowed only slightly in the past two years.
Lynsie Clott works at Magee Women’s Hospital in the International Outreach Department and went with a group of her students to learn more about civic activism in America.
On Tuesday, President Obama designated a new monument in honor of the movement for women’s equality at the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum in Washington D.C. In the decades since, the gender wage gap still affects companies across the globe, according to a recent study from Glassdoor.
“We need equal pay and we need it now”, Arquette told CNN’s Paula Newton Tuesday.
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The US based Facebook and Microsoft have become the latest tech giants to come out claiming that they have effectively implemented equal pay for both male and female. “You’re going to make the same if you do as good a job”, he said.
