Oct 13, 2020
The university has agreed to give back pay to 106 female full professors, but did not admit liability in the U.S. Labor Department's investigation.
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The university has agreed to give back pay to 106 female full professors, but did not admit liability in the U.S. Labor Department's investigation.
The average woman made 80 cents for every dollar earned by a white man -- and the gap isn't shrinking.
The State Street Corporation put a statue on Wall Street to promote "the next generation of women leaders." Now accused of pay discrimination, the firm denies wrongdoing but will pay $5 million.
This year, 25 states and the District of Columbia are considering measures that would bar employers from asking job candidates about their prior salary. Last year, two states — California and Massachusetts — adopted similar policies, aimed at trying to narrow the pay gap for women and minorities.
Such measures are designed to help people like Aileen Rizo. She was four years into her job as a math teaching consultant for Fresno County, Calif., when she found out, in 2012, that a new male hire with less education and experience was offered a salary roughly 20 percent more than she was making.
Rizo was stunned.
"I kind of knew that I had broken stereotypes, as a mathematician, and as the only full-time woman in that department," as well as being a Latina minority, she says. "But then to find out that you're getting paid less than all of your male counterparts — that they all started much higher salary steps then you did — is just ... devastating."
Rizo complained to human resources, assuming the problem would be ironed out. Instead, she was told her salary was set based on previous pay — and that her salary would not be adjusted. She says she was shocked and felt locked in.
Rizo filed suit, arguing her employer violated the Equal Pay Act, the 1963 law aimed at abolishing wage discrimination based on gender.
"I have three young daughters, and I don't want them ever to feel that way," she says, her voice cracking.
Proposals Aim To Combat Discrimination Based On Salary History
Map: Brittany Mayes/NPR
The simple truth about the gender pay gap.
Over half a century after pay discrimination became illegal in the United States, a persistent pay gap between men and women continues to hurt our nation’s workers and our national economy.
Women working full time in the U.S. are still paid just 83 cents to every dollar earned by men — and the consequences of this gap affect women throughout their lives. The pay gap even follows women into retirement: As a result of lower lifetime earnings, they receive less in Social Security and pensions. In terms of overall retirement income, women have only 70% of what men do.
Pay equity will remain an AAUW priority until the gap is fully eliminated. We hope this latest edition of The Simple Truth motivates and empowers you to join us in this cause.
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Understand the concept of pay equity and know what is pay discrimination in the workplace. The webinar also dis-cusses EEO-1 reporting rules, the Equal Pay Act, Lilly Ledbetter Act, Paycheck Fairness Act and more.
Los Angeles (AFP): Oscar-winning actress Mo'Nique on Thursday filed a pay discrimination lawsuit against Netflix, alleging the streaming giant offered her less money than it did to white and male performers because she is a black woman. Mo'Nique, also a singer and comedian, said in the...
Two Walt Disney Studios employees have filed a lawsuit claiming that Disney discriminates against female workers by paying them less than me
Two Walt Disney Studios employees have filed a lawsuit claiming that Disney discriminates against female workers by paying them less than men.
The complaint, filed on behalf of two employees at Walt Disney Studios, LaRonda Rasmussen and Karen Moore, asks for back pay, lost benefits and other compensation. The 21-page lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, (read it here) also names Walt Disney Pictures and Hollywood Records as defendants.
The first paragraph of the suit pretty much sums up its claims: “When it comes to paying women fairly, The Walt Disney Company, nearing its 100th, year, is woefully behind the times. Put simply, Disney refuses to pay its women employees equal to men doing the same work. In many instances, Disney is paying women workers tens of thousands of dollars less than their male counterparts.”
Attorneys Lori Andrus and Jennie Lee Anderson of Andrus Anderson LLP in San Francisco are representing the plaintiffs in the case. The firm specializes in unequal pay cases for female employees, having battled Intel and Farmers Insurance in prior instances.
The suit also demands that Disney create internal programs that will “remedy the effects of Disney’s past and present unlawful employment policies.” That includes adjusting salaries and benefits for other women and creating a task force that compiles reports on progress. The attorneys also requested that the case be certified as a class action.
“Women are fed up with being treated as cheap labor,” Ms. Andrus said. “We hope that this lawsuit will shed some light on the pay discrimination that Disney is subjecting its hard-working female employees to.”