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2015 Equal Pay Focus


2015 Equal Pay Focus - NYS Women Inc

This year we are focused on passing the equal pay portion of the Women's Equality Act which is coming up for a vote as early as the week of April...

New Data Shows the Gender Wage Gap Widened in 2015 - IWPR

On the eve of International Women's Day 2016—with this year's campaign focused on reaching gender parity across the globe—a new fact sheet ...

2015 Equal Pay Focus - NYS Women Inc Buffalo Niagara Chapter

This year we are focused on passing the equal pay portion of the Women's Equality Act which is coming up for a vote as early as the week of April...

Five Facts About the Gender Pay Gap - Obama White House

On Equal Pay Day, however, we focus on a stubborn and troubling fact: Despite women's gains, a large gender pay gap still exists. In 2013 ...

78 cents on the dollar: The facts about the gender wage gap

Women hold more than 70% of the jobs, yet men still earn more for the same role. Male teachers earn a median of $1,096 a week, whereas women ...

White House Announces New Commitments to the Equal Pay Pledge

The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was the first piece of legislation President Obama signed into law. Policies that ensure fair pay for all ...

In Pursuit of Pay Equity: Examining Barriers to Equal Pay ...

Most often, pay discrimination claims arise under Title VII or the EPA, or both statutes. The EPA covers sex-based pay discrimination and retaliation, whereas ...

America's gender pay gap is at a record low, but hold the celebration

Narrowing the gender wage gap will involve focusing on America's lowest-paid workers, the majority of which are women. It also requires ...

A Dollar Short: What's Holding Women Back from Equal Pay?

Occupations with more female workers pay less than those with more male workers, by a ratio of 85 cents to the dollar, in 2015. Women still make ...

Equal Pay in the United States: Salary History Bans

... focus its resources to identify pay discrimination. ... 69 “Additional Guidance on Advancing Pay Equality in the Federal Government.” July 30, ...

Next Steps for Progress on Equal Pay

This principle has been established by federal employment laws such as the Equal Pay Act, or EPA, of 1963—which prohibits sex-based ...

California Equal Pay Act - California Department of Industrial Relations

Ensuring that any legitimate factors relied upon by the employer for pay inequities are applied reasonably and account for the entire pay difference. Explicitly ...

What is the gender pay gap and is it real? - Economic Policy Institute

By 2015, they were equal to 82.7 percent of men's real wages at the median—a substantial reduction in the wage gap. Unfortunately, this means ...

Pay Equity Information

2013 - While occupational choice is said to account for some of the wage gap, studies continue to show women earning less than men in the same occupations. A ...

Equal Pay Strategy at Salesforce

In 2015, we were one of the first companies to evaluate and ... We recognize that it's not enough to focus on gender equality alone.

Know Your Rights | Equal Pay Act Part 1 - Valerian Law, P.C.

We are launching a series to address a question many people have about what it means for there to be unequal pay at work, and what laws address the problem. Our ...

California Employers Will Face Significant New Equal Pay Law

The stated rationale for this legislation is that inquiries about an applicant's current or prior wage rates can perpetuate sex-based pay differentials. When ...

The Gender Pay Gap: Why It's Still Here - Forbes

This year, Equal Pay Day was March 21, as that's how far into 2021 ... Sixth, women tend to have less time and energy to focus on work ...

The Failure of Gender Equal Pay Efforts in the United States

new reporting requirements should not be the focus of the gender wage gap ... Charge Statistics FY 1997 through FY 2015, U.S. OFFICE OF EQUAL EMP'T.

Rhetoric vs. Reality: Equal Pay - Center for American Progress

Fair Pay Act of 2015.3 Both bills focus on closing gaps in existing law to make it easier to challenge pay disparities, injecting more ...


The Great Gatsby

Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRbSF6gO78cx31SLBbDfeRcazJoDOx7PlGwdNps2LEgJWoehu4e

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.

Frankenstein

Novel by Mary Shelley https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSOMyKdErEFh7EkrIgOQqvoF-oqjrfs13H61kZ7uN2wp1krQQOb

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

Jane Eyre

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Jane Eyre is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published under her pen name "Currer Bell" on 19 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Book by Lewis Carroll