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March 24, 2021
Fair Pay Workplace Appoints Heidi Durham as First Executive Director
Veteran executive to lead nonprofit in establishing global standard of pay equity SEATTLE — MARCH 24, 2021 — Fair Pay Workplace (FPW), the trusted symbol of pay equity around the world, today announced the appointment of Heidi Durham as its…
March 2021
The State of Pay Equity Laws in the US—2021
A comparison of pay equity laws by state—and what needs to change to get the legislation right Executive Summary: The State of Pay Equity Laws in the U.S.—2021 In the nearly 60 years since the federal Equal Pay Act of…
March 8, 2021
This is how we fix the gender pay gap
Women have been getting paid less than men for as long as women have been doing paid work at all. And the fight for equal pay has been going on for just as long. So why does the pay gap…
March 8, 2021
White House Gender Policy Council established
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Co-Chair of the Gender Policy Council and Chief of Staff to the First Lady Julissa Reynoso, and Co-Chair and Executive Director of the Gender Policy Council Jennifer Klein, March 8, 2021
March 3, 2021
The secret reason you did or did not get a pay raise
Think back to the last time you received an adjustment to your compensation. Were you told that it was because of your performance? Or that it was because you “exceeded expectations” in 360 peer reviews? Did you assume that HR…
January 4, 2021
Biden to Seek Pay Data to Help End Gender, Racial Disparities
The incoming Biden administration is looking to boost pay transparency for all U.S. workers through better data collection, a move academics, attorneys, and civil rights groups say is necessary to close workforce racial and gender pay gaps. Women and workers…