It’s not as if women in this country only have to pay for 78 percent of our rent or mortgages.

So why do women still — more than 50 years after President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act — typically make only 78 cents to a man’s dollar?

Enough is enough. Until we have equal pay — or until women start getting a 22 percent discount at the grocery store or the gas pump — we’ve got to keep fighting for fairness with everything we’ve got.

Tell Congress to Support the Paycheck Fairness Act

Urge your Senators and Representative to co-sponsor this bill and support equal pay for women.

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This week Congress introduced the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill that would strengthen our equal pay law, giving women the tools they need to fight pay discrimination and help close the wage gap.

Women and their families simply can’t afford to wait any longer for equal pay — not with the wage gap adding up to more than $11,000 in lost wages for women every year.

The Paycheck Fairness Act would help end wage discrimination by closing loopholes in the Equal Pay Act. It would make it harder for employers to pay women less for the same work, prohibit retaliation against employees who compare their pay, and require that employers who break the law fairly compensate the women they’ve discriminated against.

Urge Congress to support the Paycheck Fairness Act.

Thank you for taking action today.

Sincerely,
Fatima Goss Graves
Vice President for Education and Employment
National Women’s Law Center