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Equal Pay/Compensation Discrimination

The Equal Pay Act requires that men and women in the same workplace be given equal pay for equal work. The jobs need not be identical, but they must be ...

Gender pay gap in U.S. hasn't changed much in two decades

The gender gap in pay has remained relatively stable in the United States over the past 20 years or so. In 2022, women earned an average of 82% of what men ...

The Simple Truth About the Gender Pay Gap - AAUW

The gender pay gap is the result of many factors, including race and ethnicity, disability, access to education and age. As a result, different groups of women ...

The Enduring Grip of the Gender Pay Gap - Pew Research Center

The gender pay gap – the difference between the earnings of men and women – has barely closed in the United States in the past two decades.

What You Need to Know About the Gender Wage Gap

What You Need to Know About the Gender Wage Gap · Overall, women are paid less than men. On average, women working full-time, year-round are paid ...

What To Know About the Gender Wage Gap as the Equal Pay Act ...

The overall gender wage gap masks the economic reality of many women of color. As a consequence of intersecting racial, ethnic, and gender ...

Equal Pay Act of 1963 - Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

The EPA prohibits sex-based wage discrimination between men and women in the same establishment who perform jobs that require substantially equal skill ...

Gender wage gap persists in 2023: Women are paid roughly 22 ...

The wage gap is smallest among lower-wage workers, in part due to the minimum wage creating a wage floor. At the 10th percentile, women are paid ...

The Gender Pay Gap - AAUW

Women working full time in the US are paid 84% of what men earn. At the current rate of change, we won't achieve pay equality until 2088.

5 Fast Facts: The Gender Wage Gap | U.S. Department of Labor Blog

Stats. Overall, women are not paid as much as men, even when working full time and year round. On average, women working full time, year round ...

Quick Facts About the Gender Wage Gap

Experts have calculated this gap in a multitude of ways, but the varying calculations point to a consensus: Women consistently earn less than ...

Women Continue to Struggle for Equal Pay and Representation

We looked at the gender pay gap across 14 broad groups of industries, and found that the pay gap was largest in the health care and social ...

A Window Into the Wage Gap: What's Behind It and How to Close It

This gap in earnings translates into $9,990 less per year in median earnings, leaving women and their families shortchanged when they need every dollar to make ...

The gender pay gap | International Labour Organization

Gender pay gaps represent one of today's greatest social injustice. According to the ILO Global Wage Report 2018/19, women earn on average about 20 per cent ...

Gender wage gap | OECD

The gender wage gap is defined as the difference between median earnings of men and women relative to median earnings of men.

Pay Discrimination - Equal Rights Advocates

The Equal Pay Act of 1963 says sex-based pay discrimination is illegal, meaning your employer must pay you the same amount as one or more coworkers of “the ...

International Equal Pay Day - the United Nations

International Equal Pay Day, celebrated on 18 September, represents the longstanding efforts towards the achievement of equal pay for work of equal value.

“Women's work” and the gender pay gap: How discrimination ...

Again, this large gender pay gap between the highest earners is partially driven by gender bias. Harvard economist Claudia Goldin (2014) posits ...

Learn more details about the Massachusetts Equal Pay Act | Mass.gov

Employers do not need to intend to discriminate based on gender in order to be liable under the law. Affirmative Defense. An employer who violates MEPA is ...

The gender pay gap situation in the EU - European Commission

Pay discrimination: In some cases, women earn less than men for doing equal work or work of equal value even if the principle of equal pay is enshrined in the ...


Equality Act 2010

The Equality Act 2010, often erroneously called the Equalities Act 2010, is an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed during the Brown ministry with the primary purpose of consolidating, updating and supplementing the numerous prior Acts and Regulations, that formed the basis of anti-discrimination law in mostly England, Scotland and Wales; some sections also apply to Northern Ireland.