From Movement to Policy: Equal Pay and the Gender Pay Gap

  • 02/20/2015
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
  • UW1 Building, Rose Room, UW Bothell
  

 

From Movement to Policy: Equal Pay and the Gender Pay Gap

  

Friday, February 20: 12:30-2:30

UW1 Building, Rose Room, UW Bothell
Light lunch provided

In 1963, President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law.  Over fifty years later, U.S. women still earn between 73% and 77% of what a man would earn in a lifetime. Come find out how equal pay for women went from a social movement demand to different levels of public policy, and discuss what the challenges of implementation can teach us about the stubbornness of gender pay inequity.

Speakers:
• Congresswoman Suzan DelBene, 1st Congressional District, Washington
• Marilyn Watkins, Policy Director, Economic Opportunity Institute & City of Seattle Gender Pay Equity Taskforce
• Professor S. Charusheela, UW Bothell


Sponsored by: Law Economics and Public Policy (LEPP) and Washington Women Lawyers. For more information, contact Karrin Klotz, kklotz@uwb.edu or Camille Walsh, cwalsh@uwb.edu

"Only where they are organized do women get equal pay for equal work." – Eleanor Roosevelt

 Washington Women Lawyers is a 501(c)6 non-profit organization. PO Box 46107,  Seattle, WA  98146

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