Seven years ago, President Obama signed into law his first piece of legislation. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act that undid the damage of a 2007 Supreme Court decision that made it nearly impossible for women to enforce the Equal Pay Act against employers who paid them less than their male counterparts.
Woman on the $10 Bill – Mark your calendars, folks. In 2020, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States, a woman (gasp!) will be featured on the ten dollar bill.
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider a number of high profile cases this term – cases that cover a broad swath of American life, from access to reproductive health care, to affirmative action, public sector unions, voting rights, and (again) contraceptive insurance coverage exceptions under of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
In a signing ceremony at Rosie the Riveter State Park near San Francisco, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law today the strongest pay equity protection in the U.S. With the stroke of a pen, Gov. Brown smashed one of the biggest barriers to equal pay for work of equal value.
Analysis from the most recent data released by the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that the gender wage gap was at 78.6 percent for full-time, year round workers in 2014. The gap has narrowed only a few percentage points over the last 15 years and, as has been pointed out, if the annual earnings ratio (the wage gap) continues at the same snail-paced rate it has maintained since 1960, women’s pay will not reach parity with men’s until 2059
Tell the Senate to vote No on the SAVE America Act.