Labor/Employment
Apr. 7, 2012
Equal Pay Day: End wage disparity between men and women
A call to action: despite decades old laws requiring equal pay for women, a disparity remains to this day. By Patricia Sturdevant of California Women Lawyers
Tuesday, April 17 is Equal Pay Day, and across California bar associations affiliated with California Women Lawyers are hosting Unhappy Hours and wearing red to signal dissatisfaction with continuing wage disparity between women and men. A full 49 years after passage of the Equal Pay Act, women are still "in the red" and do not receive equal pay for equal work, earning on average only 77 percent of what men make, a gap of 23 cents...
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