WHAT: AAUW Director of Public Policy and Government Relations Lisa Maatz will testify before the Joint Economic Committee’s Equal Pay Hearing on Tuesday, April 28, Equal Pay Day 2009. Equal Pay Day reminds the nation of the gross inequities facing women, who must work from January 2008 through April 2009 to earn what their male counterparts received in 2008 alone.
WHEN: April 28, 2009 | 10 a.m. EDT
WHERE: 2172 Rayburn House Office Building
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The hearing, "Equal Pay for Equal Work? New Evidence on the Persistence of the Gender Pay Gap," will focus on the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s newly released report examining the gender pay gap in the federal government. Experts will discuss new evidence of continuing disparities between men's and women's pay, which hit families particularly hard during these tough economic times. Witnesses will also comment on the need for additional federal action to combat the gender pay gap.
For Equal Pay Day, AAUW has released a new state-by-state earnings comparison by gender that shows that the wage gap is stubbornly in place despite the overall positive effect a college degree has on women workers. AAUW believes that equal pay for equal work is a simple matter of justice for women. Wage discrimination impacts the economic security of families today and directly affects retirement security as women look down the road.
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For more information, visit http://www.aauw.org/About/newsroom/pressreleases/wageGap_042209.cfm.
For more information about AAUW’s Equal Pay Day activities, visit http://www.aauw.org/advocacy/issue_advocacy/EqualPayDay.cfm.
