MAJORITY RULE 3Our Work Is Valued
We are paid equally for our work and get promoted equally too. The jobs primarily done by women — from teaching to caregiving — are valued and supported. All women can retire with dignity and enjoy the life they worked hard for.
Overall, women in the United States are paid only 83 cents for every dollar their male counterparts are paid.
Overall, women in the United States are paid only 83 cents for every dollar their male counterparts are paid. Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander women are paid 75 cents, Black women are paid 64 cents, Indigenous women are paid 60 cents, and Latinas are paid 57 cents. Women make this nation run every single day, and there is a need for a reckoning to address the way we women are treated in the workforce. These problems existed long before the pandemic began. And the solutions are evident — if we want our society to function, we must pay all women equitable and livable wages, strengthen collective bargaining rights to narrow the racial and gender wage gap, and institute stronger protections from workforce discrimination and exploitation.
State legislators have leveled the playing field for women in the workplace by:
- Increasing state minimum wage laws and repealing subminimum wage laws for tipped and domestic workers and codifying equal pay for equal work.
- Preventing wage theft, and retaliation for whistleblowing.
- Supporting industry specific standards and protections through creation of wage boards for home care workers, domestic workers, and nail salon workers.
- Enhancing workplace protections against workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and hair textures/styles.
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