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7 Ways To Protest On Equal Pay Day If You’re Sick Of Working More To Earn Less Than Men

The Equal Pay Today campaign has organized a petition delivery event in Washington, D.C. on Equal Pay Day. The petition is a seeking a reinstatement of an Obama-era equal pay policy mandating that companies with...

Live Updates: Bill Cosby Starts Under The Glare Of The #MeToo Movement

But that trial on the same charges occurred before the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct scandal broke, prompting the #MeToo and Time's Up movements that have changed how allegations of sexual assault and harassment are treated....

Using Prior Salary to Set Pay Violates Federal Law, 9th Cir. Says

“The relevant inquiry isn’t whether a salary offer is based on salary alone or some stew of prior salary and other issues but makes clear that it shouldn’t be based on prior salary at all,”...

Op-Ed: Lilly Ledbetter: My #MeToo Moment

It doesn’t surprise me that the National Women’s Law Center, which I’ve worked closely with since 2005 and which has been housing and administering the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund since January, says it has...

In Time for Equal Pay Day, Report Indicates Wage Gap Persists in Nearly Every Occupation

The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) has published a report based on the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data showing that women earn 80 cents for every dollar paid to their male counterparts across 97%...

Experts Say Bill Cosby Will Have To Face The #MeToo Music At His Retrial For Rape

“We are in a different place culturally than we were a year ago,” said Maya Raghu, director of workplace equality and senior counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. “The effect of the national reckoning...