How many years has it been since the passage of the Equal Pay Act?
Interestingly, it has been forty years since the Equal Pay Act was passed in the United Kingdom.
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Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, which prohibits arbitrary discrimination against women in the payment of wages.
The bill, an expansion and update to the Equal Pay Act of 1963, failed to pass the Senate today.
Despite the 50-year anniversary of the Equal Pay Act this year, women continue to earn less than men across most job functions.
The troubling point highlighted in the report is that this wage gap persists 50 years after the Equal Pay Act was passed.
Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963 -- women who worked full-time earned only 77 percent of what their male counterparts did.
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They open the door to potential lawsuits as those inaccuracies could point toward gender discrimination or other points of the Equal Pay Act.
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Now keep in mind, this was 34 years after the Equal Pay Act was signed by President Kennedy in 1963, a law designed to abolish wage disparity based on gender.
This comprehensive and common sense bill updates and strengthens the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which made it illegal for employers to pay unequal wages to men and women who perform substantially equal work.
Fast forward to 2012, as we approach the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, and gender discrimination is still being debated and still making headlines, most recently in the form of a lawsuit brought by Ellen Pao against Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins.
Despite legislation like the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Lilly Ledbetter Act of 2009, and the fact that women currently make up half of the U.S. workforce, the Census Bureau reports that women still earn only 77 cents to each dollar a man earns.
Appeal judges unanimously ruled the council had failed to establish that the deputy judge's ruling on the 1970 Equal Pay Act was wrong or in any way flawed.
Still, the Government's Equal Pay Act states that pay between men and women doing the same job must be equal and transparent.
The first bill I signed into law was making sure that there was equal pay for equal work for women -- the Lilly Ledbetter Act -- (applause) -- because I think you should be paid the same for doing the same work.
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Equal Pay: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act provides protection against pay discrimination, but the protection is useless if suits must be brought before employees know of the discrimination.
Regardless, President Obama responded by highlighting the first bill he signed in 2009, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which removed the previous 180-day statute of limitations for filing an equal-pay lawsuit when a worker found out later that they had been unfairly discriminated against.
The very first thing he did as President -- the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to help women get equal pay for equal work.
And that is why the first bill he signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to help women get equal pay for equal work. (Applause.) And that is why he will always, always fight to ensure that we as women can make our own decisions about our bodies and about our health care.
That court found, in her favor, that the Defense of Marriage Act violates the Constitution's equal protection clause and thus she shouldn't have had to pay an inheritance tax after her partner's death.
And that is why the very first bill he signed as President -- the first thing he did -- was sign the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to make sure women get equal pay for equal work -- (applause) -- first thing he did.
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