As we honor the achievements of women during Women’s History Month, it’s a good time to assess where women are in terms of equal pay in the workplace. On March 15, Equal Pay Day, we marked the number of extra days women, on average, must work to earn what men, on average, earned the prior year. For mothers and women of color, this date falls later in the year.
This year, we must also recognize the effects of a pandemic that, according to the Department of Labor, may have set women’s participation in the labor force back by more than 30 years and may also have stalled many of the pay equity gains of the last few decades.
Covid-19 forced many women out of the workforce: The February 2021 participation rate—55.8 %—was the same rate as in April 1987. Theimpact of these developments was especially hard for women of color and low-wage earners.
It’s no secret thatwomen earn less than men, despite the federal Equal Pay Act of 1963 and state laws requiring equal pay for equal work.
California’s Fair Pay Act, perhaps the strongest, requires equal pay for “substantially similar work, when viewed as a...
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