Perspective
Mar. 6, 2013
Progress report: the Equal Pay Act a half-century later
Today, despite the guarantees of the Equal Pay Act, gender based wage disparity persists. Women still earn on average 77 percent of what men make. By Pat Sturdevant
This year marks a half century since passage of the Equal Pay Act, which outlawed wage discrimination between men and women in the same establishment who perform jobs requiring substantially equal skill, effort and responsibility under similar working conditions. This guarantee of equal pay for equal work for America's women was signed by President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and codified as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
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