Apr 05 U.S. women’s soccer scores higher pay, better conditions in new labor agreement By Dave Berndtson The U.S. women’s national soccer team ratified a new five-year collective bargaining agreement Tuesday following a bitter yearlong dispute over demands for equal pay. Continue reading
Feb 19 States struggle to close their own gender pay gaps By Teresa Wiltz, Stateline Male state workers earn more than their female counterparts in many states, including California, Idaho, Maryland and Texas. Continue reading
Aug 04 Column: A Massachusetts law is the most promising step yet toward equal pay By Ariane Hegewisch Earlier this week, Gov. Charlie Baker of Massachusetts signed an equal pay law that is the most comprehensive statutory attempt yet to address gender pay inequality in the country. Continue reading
Apr 12 Equal pay for equal play. What the sport of tennis got right By Joshua Barajas And what still needs work. Continue reading
Jan 29 Obama: More work needed to close the pay gap for women, minorities By Josh Lederman, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is expanding a data collection program aimed at ferreting out abuses of equal pay laws. Continue reading
Apr 08 Watch Obama signs executive orders on pay transparency for federal contractors By PBS News Hour President Obama issued two executive orders aimed at income disparity based on gender on what the White House proclaimed Equal Pay Day. But Republicans charged the president and Democrats were playing politics rather than improving policy. Judy Woodruff gets two… Continue watching
Apr 08 Obama, Democrats look to take action on equal pay By Jim Kuhnhenn, Alan Fram, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress are making a concerted election-year push to draw attention to women's wages, linking Obama executive actions with pending Senate legislation aimed at closing a compensation gender gap that favors… Continue reading
Aug 26 Watch Pay Equity Pioneer Lilly Ledbetter Addresses the DNC Following is the text of the speech delivered to the Democratic convention by Lilly Ledbetter, a former Goodyear Tire and Rubber employee in Alabama who filed a landmark gender pay discrimination suit that went all the way to the Supreme… Continue watching
Jun 23 Watch Candidates Stump in Battleground Western States Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain took shots at each other over energy policy as they each toured Western states, hoping to drive home their message in what could be new battlegrounds this campaign season. Continue watching