Women's Equal Pay Rights
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 ...
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 ...
Equal Pay for Equal Work - U.S. Department of Labor
The Equal Pay Act (EPA) protects individuals of all sexes. All forms of compensation are covered, including salary, overtime pay, bonuses, life insurance, ...
What To Know About the Gender Wage Gap as the Equal Pay Act ...
In 1963, the Equal Pay Act enshrined into law equal pay for equal work, explicitly prohibiting pay discrimination on the basis of sex. Following ...
Know Your Rights: The Equal Pay Act - AAUW
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA) is a federal law that prohibits pay discrimination on the basis of sex.
In 1963, when the Equal Pay Act was passed, full-time working women were paid 59 cents on average for every dollar paid to men. This means it took 44 years ...
Women Continue to Struggle for Equal Pay and Representation
In these fields, while women made up 77% of workers, they earned 43 cents on the dollar, on average, compared to men. The next highest pay gap ...
Equal Pay & the Wage Gap Archives - National Women's Law Center
Women in the U.S. who work full time, year round are paid only 84 cents for every dollar paid to men — and for women of color, the wage gap is even larger.
Equal Pay - Know Your Rights - Obama White House
The Equal Pay Act specifically prohibits paying men and women differently for the same work. All of these statutes are enforced by the U.S. Equal Employment ...
On Anniversary of Equal Pay Act, Signs of Progress and Remaining ...
Signed into law by President John F. Kennedy on June 10, 1963, this historic legislation recognized that women's work—and their fair and equal ...
Examining the Equal Pay Act of 1963 - JFK Library
The law says employees, regardless of sex, must be paid equal pay “for equal work on jobs the performances of which requires equal skill, effort, and ...
Equal Pay Act of 1963 - Wikipedia
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 is a United States labor law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (see gender ...
Over 60 years after Equal Pay Act, why the gender pay gap persists
More than six decades after the U.S. banned gender-based pay discrimination, American employers continue to pay women less than men.
The Simple Truth About the Gender Pay Gap - AAUW
Women working full time in the U.S. are still paid just 84 cents to every dollar earned by men — and the consequences of this gap affect women throughout their ...
International Equal Pay Day - the United Nations
Across all regions, women are paid less than men, with the gender pay gap estimated at around 20 per cent globally. Gender equality and the ...
The mission of Equal Pay Today, a project at Equal Rights Advocates, is to eradicate the long-standing gender wage gap impacting the economic security of women.
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 ...
Understand the Basics - Obama White House
Despite passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which requires that men and women in the same work place be given equal pay for equal work, the "gender gap" in ...
Fighting for Equality: Esther Peterson Leads the Way on Equal Pay
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 was the first law in which the federal government addressed pay equity for women. President Kennedy supported the initiative and ...
Signed by President Kennedy in 1963 as an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act, the law mandates equal pay for equal work by forbidding ...
Women's rights
Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries.