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Male Teachers VS. Women Teachers
Women teachers won the equal pay battle in New York City. -
Women Working During World War I
During WWI, many amount of women were recruited into jobs held by men who had gone to fight in the war. However, they received lower wages for doing the same work as men which began a demand for equal pay. Women workers on London buses and trams went on strike to demand the same increase in pay as men. The strike spread to other towns in the South East and to the London Underground. This was the first equal pay strike in the UK which was initiated, led and ultimately won by women -
Women Working During World War II
Women working 'male' jobs that were considered as highly skilled renewed debates about equal pay. A limited agreement on equal pay was reached that allowed equal pay for women where they performed the same job as men had ‘without assistance or supervision'. Most employers managed to evade the issue of equal pay, and women’s pay remained on average 53% of the pay of the men they replaced. Semi-skilled and unskilled jobs were designated as ‘women’s jobs’ and were exempt from equal pay negotiations -
Job Listings in Newspaper
Newspapers published separate job listings for men and women. Jobs were categorized according to sex, with the higher level jobs listed almost exclusively under "Help Wanted—Male." There were some cases where the ads ran identical jobs under male and female listings but with separate pay scales. Between 1950 and 1960, women with full time jobs earned on average between 59–64 cents for every dollar their male counterparts earned in the same job. -
Equal Pay Act 1963
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 is a United States labor law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex. It was signed into law by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin -
Schultz v. Wheaton Glass Co.
The court ruled that jobs need to be "substantially equal" but not "identical" to fall under the protection of the Equal Pay Act. An employer cannot, for example, change the job titles of women workers in order to pay them less than men. -
Corning Glass Works v. Brennan
The Supreme Court ruled that employers cannot justify paying women lower wages because that is what they traditionally received under the "going market rate." A wage differential occurring "simply because men would not work at the low rates paid women" was unacceptable. -
Equal Pay Day
This date symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year. Equal Pay Day was originated by the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) in 1996 as a public awareness event to illustrate the gap between men's and women's wages. -
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
To help address this unfair and unacceptable wage gap, President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act on January 29, 2009, restoring the protection against pay discrimination that was stripped away by the Supreme Court's decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. -
Proposed Paycheck Fairness Act
The Paycheck Fairness Act is a proposed US labor law that would add procedural protections to the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Fair Labor Standards Act as part of an effort to address the gender pay gap in the United States. -
Wage Equality
Based on its research, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research estimated in 2015 that women won’t receive equal pay until 2059.
