Equal Pay

It’s time to value employees by contribution not location. The pandemic knocked us all out of our comfort zones, employers and employees alike. We made it work — literally — spending hours on videoconference meetings, honing our communication skills, and hastily drawing diagrams on digital whiteboard applications. …

Women Employed, ​​which has been creating fundamental, systemic change for working women for 50 years, today applauded the passage of HB 3129, a pay transparency bill that passed in the Illinois General Assembly and awaits Gov. Pritzker’s signature. …

Asking for equal pay for teachers is like asking for equal pay for firefighters. It’s subjective. When I first saw the headline “Teachers Need Equal Pay” or “Teachers Need a Pay Raise”, I was in my teens. I remember going straight into that article, wondering if it meant teachers in…

Why Discussing Pay in the Workplace is Important Let’s break this down: discussing pay in the workplace is key to making sure everyone is getting a fair shake. When companies keep salaries hush-hush, it’s way too easy for bosses to pay some folks less than others. …

Barb Yong has been practicing law for 40 years, with the last 22 at the mid-sized Chicago law firm, Golan Christie Taglia LLP. During her tenure, she helped grow the firm from 10 attorneys to over 35 and is one of the very few law firms that are over 50%…

If you thought Women Employed (WE) kicked off 2023 with a bang, you haven’t seen anything yet. The past month has proved to be one of our busiest as we participated in even more events, giving us more opportunities to champion the economic advancement of women by advocating for causes…

By Family Values @ Work Executive Director Josephine Kalipeni March 14th was Equal Pay Day, the day that symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned the year before. Currently, women are paid 84 cents for every dollar men earn. Black women currently earn…

Why Women’s Equal Pay Day is just the beginning — This article was originally published in the Claim Yours newsletter. You can read it for free here. The data in this article was provided by the American Association of University Women in this article. Note that Women’s Equal Pay Days are recalculated each year based on the previous year’s data. Women’s Equal Pay Day …

A negotiation expert offers practical tips for getting the salary or promotion you want. — By Alexandra Mislin, American University Equal Pay Day falls in 2023 on March 14 — a date determined by how long into the new year American women must work to catch up to American men’s earnings the previous year. In 2022, women earned 82% of what men earned. …