WASHINGTON, D.C. – As we mark Equal Pay Day today, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL09) said that more needs to be done to close the wage gap that still exists between women and men. Equal Pay Day symbolizes when, more than three months into the year, women’s wages finally catch up to what men were paid in the previous year.
"At a time when women make an average of 77 cents for every dollar earned by men, everyone deserves equal pay for equal work,” Grayson said. “Yet, decades after the passage of the Equal Pay Act in 1963, women are only paid 79 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men; African-American women are paid an average of 61 cents for every dollar; and Hispanic women are paid a startling 55 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men.”
“Today, women make up about half of the workforce and its wrong that on average they are still being paid less than men,” Rep. Grayson pointed out. “A woman deserves equal pay for equal work. While women’s role in our economy has changed dramatically, America’s workplaces have simply not kept up.”
“I am a proud cosponsor of the Paycheck Fairness Act, which will help women finally achieve equal pay for equal work, by strengthening and closing loopholes in the Equal Pay Act of 1963,” Rep. Alan Grayson stated.
