CSPAN2 Democratic Senators On Equal Pay April 13, 2016
Generations even. Even though it is against the law and has been against the law since the passage of the equal pay act in 1963. The gender pay gap persists across all states and nearly all occupations. As we seek to build a 21st century work force, more than 73 million working women are at a disadvantage because of pay inequity and other barriers based on gender. While we have come a ways from the days of overt pay discriminations, such as the 1930s when the federal government no less required women to be paid 25 less than their male counterparts. The pay gap exists, persists. Its bad enough ...