Equal Pay

Pay Discrimination decision in May 2007 from the US Supreme Court upheld stringent requirement that looks back at only the most recent 180 days. Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion that millions of American women fear.

Research on wage gaps - comparing female and male managers - wage gap widened between 1995 and 2001. Members of Congress Carolyn Maloney and John Dingell ask Congress to conduct hearings.

see

• Equality 2020
• Women Lose Ground in Top Jobs, Pay
• A New Look Through the Glass Ceiling: Where are the Women?
• Bridging the Gap - why women still don't get equal pay - by David Moberg in a special issue of In These Times Magazine on "The Next Wave Feminism for All" - January 8, 2001
• Information about Equal Pay.
• Worthy Wage Campaign
• Equal Rights for Women
• National Committee on Pay Equity
• Contraception Equity
• ERA - Learn about the Equal Rights Amendment - a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would guarantee equality of rights under the law for all women.

updated October 18, 2007

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