It's Time for Equal Pay
Too often, women are paid less than men for the same work. Contact your U.S. Senator and urge them to support the Paycheck Fairness Act.
Women are breadwinners. In fact 42% of working women in the United States are the sole breadwinner for their families, so the pay gap not only affects women but their families as well.
Employers need to recognize the time all working families need to care for their loved ones. We need laws that acknowledge the challenges that working families face.
Working people in unions are dedicated to fair schedules, fair wages, access to affordable health care and child care, and paid leave for all working families and women who are disproportionately affected.
7
The number of additional months a black woman would have to work to earn what a white man in the same job makes in one year.
Did You Know
The wage gap costs the average full-time U.S. woman worker between $700,000 and $2 million over the course of her work life.
80
The number, in cents, a woman is paid for every dollar paid to a man.
