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Senate Republicans defeat women’s equal pay bill, again

June 11, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Women are paid only 82 cents for every dollar paid to men, and this gap is greater for women of color. The Senate GOP just made sure that will all continue.

Equal Pay Day used to push legislation against pay discrimination

March 25, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Calls go out for wide-ranging and hard-hitting laws to halt the paying of inferior wages to the nation’s women.

Equal pay for equal work? Not yet for U.S. women’s soccer team

December 3, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

The U.S. women are international soccer’s version of the New York Yankees. The men rarely even make it to the World Cup quarterfinals.

Judge tosses out equal pay discrimination claims made by Women’s soccer

May 4, 2020 By Al Neal

Federal judge deals Women's National Team a loss on May Day.

DeLauro: ‘Woman workers on frontlines’ of coronavirus battle still shorted in pay

April 1, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

Low-paid workers are disproportionately women of color, and for them, they will need to work several more months to make what a white, non-Hispanic man earned last year.