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The House debated a bill to change the 1963 Equal Pay Act requiring equal pay for equal work. The bill would require employees to provide non-gender specific business reasons for paying a ma…

Speaker Pelosi and congressional Democrats held a news conference to discuss the Paycheck Fairness Act. The bill changes the 1963 Equal Pay Act to eliminate different reasons businesses can …

The House voted 217-210 to approve the Paycheck Fairness Act. The bill changes the 1963 Equal Pay Act to eliminate different reasons businesses can give for different pay for men and women d…

Vice President Kamala Harris hosted a virtual town hall with women lawmakers and advocacy organizations to discuss the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on working women and households…

A House Appropriations subcommittee held a hearing on the Hyde Amendment and its impact on abortion access for women. Women’s health care advocates testified about the role the Hyde Amendmen…

On the day of President Trump’s State of the Union address, Representative Brenda Lawrence (D-MI) and other members of the Democratic Women’s Working Group talked about the state of women in…

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was joined by other House Democrats and equal pay activists to reintroduce the Paycheck Fairness Act, ten years after the signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay …

House Democratic women reacted to President Trump’s Twitter attack against MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski that morning.

The morning session of the Shriver Report forum included introductory remarks by Maria Shriver and Neera Tanden. Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Barbara Ehrenreich participated in a p…

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Democratic women held a press briefing to focus on the House Republican proposal to pay for student loan interest rate, which would cut wo…

Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and more than 20 other organizations held a rally to oppose proposals by House Republicans to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood.

Linda Tarr-Whelan talked about her book Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World (Berrett-Koehler Publishers; October 1, 2009). She talked about the…

A panel discussion was held on the effect of the economic downturn on the employment and economic security of women. Policy options discussed included: women’s participation in non-tradition…

Witnesses testified about equal pay for women. Among the topics they addressed were the amount of time a woman works to earn the equivalent of a man for one year, proposed legislation to str…

Participants talked about inequality between men’s and women’s pay and voiced their support for the paycheck fairness act being considered by Congress.

Standing in front of the Capitol, House Democratic women spoke to reporters about proposals to privatize Social Security benefits and the potential impact of such plans on women. Following t…

Participants talked to reporters about the pay equity gap between men and women. They announced legislation designed to help narrow the income disparity between men and women. Following thei…

On “Equal Pay Day,” President Clinton announced several initiatives to narrow the wage gap between men and women. He also commented upon the Los Alamos fire, which he declared a federal em…

President Bill Clinton commemorated the 35th Anniversary of President John Kennedy’s signing of the Equal Pay Act. He and other speakers urged the passage of legislation to strengthen the la…

Vice President Al Gore, Secretary Alexis Herman and others gathered to highlight continuing gender pay inequities. They stressed the impact of this problem on working women and their familie…