Category Archives: Equal Pay

Echoing President Obama’s call this past weekend for corporations with more than 100 employees to reveal how much they pay men, women, and minorities–an effort to improve pay equity by requiring pay transparency and accountability–city council freshman Lorena Gonzalez says she hopes to pass legislation this year that would require the city to follow suit. Gonzalez, whoContinue reading “Echoing Obama Order, Gonzalez Says She’ll Push for Pay Transparency this Year”

In his final year in office, President Barack Obama is returning to an issue that was at the heart of the first piece of legislation he ever signed at the White House: closing the gender pay gap. Obama on Friday unveiled new rules that would compel companies with more than 100 workers to provide theContinue reading “President Obama Announces Rules for Closing Gender Pay Gap”

Sometimes, state-based legislative change seems to be an incremental thing, with bills trickling through state houses across the country so slowly that a casual observer wouldn’t notice — which is often what backers of such campaigns would prefer. And then there’s the supernova approach. That’s what a coalition of progressive and women’s empowerment groups areContinue reading “Legislators organize blitz of equal-pay legislation in nearly half the states”