Biden Administration To Announce Steps Targeted To Close Gender and Racial Pay Gaps

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March 15, 2022

By Murjani Rawls, TheRoot

Biden expected to use an executive order that limits access to federal workers’ pay history to determine salaries.

Vice President Kamala Harris will host a virtual summit commemorating Equal Pay day on March 15. Photo: MANDEL NGAN / AFP (Getty Images)

The National Women’s Law Center analysis shows that women working full-time are paid eighty three cents on the dollar compared to men. It gets worse when you speak about women of color. Black women made sixty four cents on the dollar compared to White men, while Latina and Native American women made just fifty seven cents. Considering how high inflation is, this isn’t a minuscule difference…

President Biden will sign an executive order limiting federal contractors’ access to the previous pay history of applicants and employees when determining salaries….

President Biden spoke about how necessary these actions are in conjunction with Equal Pay Day.

“For over 25 years, Equal Pay Day has helped draw attention to gender-based pay disparities by highlighting how far into a new year a woman must work, on average, to earn what a man did in the previous year,” Biden said Monday in a proclamation.
“This year, Equal Pay Day falls on March 15, the earliest we have ever marked the occasion. The earlier that Equal Pay Day arrives, the closer our Nation has come to achieving pay fairness. But while we should celebrate the progress we have made, as I have said in the past, we should not be satisfied until Equal Pay Day is no longer necessary at all,” he added.

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