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- Serena Williams wants equal pay for women in sports via USA Today
Serena Williams talked to Melissa Harris-Perry for the July issue of Glamour in a Q&A that covers everything from how she doesn’t believe anyone should blame Drake for her U.S. Open loss to how she wants to have kids in the future. The longest answer Williams shared in the published interview was concerning the wage discrimination in sports that the U.S. women’s national soccer team has recently challenged.
- How does your state protect
#EqualPay and pay transparency? via the U.S. Department of Labor
Check out this map that provides information on federal and state-level equal pay and pay transparency protections for workers. More information about protection, coverage and available remedies are listed in an accompanying table.
Responding to the equal-pay suit that star members on the women’s soccer team announcedin March, the U.S. Soccer Federation filed its defense on Tuesday and countered claims that it has violated anti-discrimination laws. The federation went on to declare that it had good reason to award $9 million to the men’s team for making it to the second stage of the 2014 World Cup and only $2 million to the women’s team for winning the whole damn competition at the 2015 World Cup.
Pay equity concerns more than just athletes. Leaders devoted to pay equity are now pushing companies with few women at the top echelons to disclose pay gaps and work toward more equitable workforce composition.
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Why It Matters When Hollywood Actresses Talk About Pay Equality via Huffington Post
This week everyone was talking about “House of Cards” — not because Netflix just dropped a new season on us, but because a star of the series, Robin Wright, dropped her own personal bombshell at an event in New York. The actress revealed that she recently demanded to be paid the same as her costar Kevin Spacey for her work on the show, The Huffington Post first reported Tuesday. And her bosses complied. She spoke candidly to a roomful of activists and philanthropists at the Rockefeller Foundation about the horrid fact that women make less than men in the United States.
Donna Seymour, who hails from the (far upstate) North Country of NYS, has spent 40 plus years advocating for children, women and family issues, equity, sustainability, and social justice issues. Currently serving as the Public Policy VP for AAUW-NYS (the American Association University Women), she is also a member the League of Women Voters, the Equal Pay Coalition, PTA, NOW, and Planned Parenthood, just to name a few.