Equal Pay Day - April 10, 2018
Information about pay equality
EQUAL PAY DATES/EARNINGS ON THE DOLLAR COMPARED TO MEN (2018)
WOMEN COMPARED TO MEN: APRIL 10, 2018 -- $.80 (CENTS)
This means that women (on average) must typically work 16 months to earn what White men earn in 12 months
WOMEN BY ETHNICITY AS COMPARED TO WHITE, NON-HISPANIC MEN:
Asian-American Women: February 22, 2018 -- $.87 (cents)
White Women: April 17, 2018 -- $.79 (cents)
African-American/Black Women: August 7, 2018 -- $.63 (cents)
Native American Women: September 27, 2018 -- $.57 (cents)
Latinas: November 1, 2018 -- $.54 (cents)
Latest News
- Women Can't Have Prior Salaries Used Against Them, Court Says In Equal Pay Case
April 10, 2018
Excerpt:
Employers can't pay women less than men just because they made less at a previous job, a federal appeals court has ruled. The continuing gender pay gap is "an embarrassing reality of our economy," the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in its opinion.
The court said a woman's prior salary, whether considered on its own or along with other factors, can't be used to justify paying a female employee less than her male counterpart. To do so perpetuates discrimination, the court's majority opinion said. - The Chronicle of Higher Education Review: Why Does the Public Distrust Higher Ed? Too Many Women."....
Yet women’s academic success does not seem to translate to equal pay or more positions of influence; the increase in women’s college numbers is not evidence of a decrease in gender bias. While college-educated women have greater job prospects and earn better pay than women without college credentials, they are not equal to men — not men whose credentials match their own, nor by many measures, even men who have markedly fewer credentials and training. Indeed, Carnevale argues that women need to obtain higher degrees than men in order to compensate for gendered pay disparities. College credentials, then, have become a tax on women.
A 2012 study by the American Association of University Women found that women just one year out of college who were working full time earned, on average, 80 percent of what their male peers earned, even after controlling for hours worked, college major, occupation, and employment sector. According to Pew Research Center data, this disparity worsens as the years since graduation go on, though it differs according to racial and ethnic categories.
College women know that they are likely to make less than their male classmates; they also are fairly certain that they will be penalized for having children. The Pew Research Center found in its 2013 "Social & Demographic Trends" project that 63 percent of the millennial women (ages 18-32) surveyed believed both of those things to be true.
...." - California Clarifies How Employers Can Use Salary History InformationOn July 18, 2018, Governor Brown signed AB 2282, the Fair Pay Act Bill, into law to clarify Labor Code sections 432.3 and 1197.5 (also known as the California Equal Pay Act), which collectively dictate how employers can use salary history information of employees and applicants for employment. Existing law prohibits California employers from asking job “applicants” for salary history information and requires them to provide “applicants” with the “pay scale” for a position upon “reasonable request.” Existing law also prohibits employers from paying employees of one sex less than the other for substantially similar work and prohibits prior salary, by itself, from justifying any pay disparity.