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Justice Circle This August 7, 2024, marks Moms’ Equal Pay Day, highlighting the persistent wage gap mothers face. Working moms earn just 63 cents for every dollar earned by working dads.* This disparity reflects cultural biases and workplace structures that don’t accommodate caregiving responsibilities, limiting economic stability and future security for mothers, as stated by Equal Pay Today.
This day serves as a stark reminder of the persistent wage gap that mothers face in the workforce. Unfortunately, many employers’ policies still don’t account for employees with significant caregiving roles. This creates a double burden for working moms, who are the backbone of our economy and our families, and who still shoulder the majority of caregiving burdens within our homes and communities.
This Moms’ Equal Pay Day, we are calling for critical legislative changes to support working moms. We urge federal lawmakers to pass three essential pieces of legislation that can help close the wage gap and support working parents:
- FAMILY Act: provides up to 12 weeks of partial income for workers taking time off for serious health conditions, family caregiving, childbirth, adoption, and certain family demands related to military deployment.
- Healthy Families Act: establishes a national standard for paid sick and safe days, allowing workers in businesses with 15 or more employees to earn up to seven job-protected paid sick and safe days annually.
- Paycheck Fairness Act: modernizes and strengthens the Equal Pay Act of 1963, combats pay discrimination, and closes the wage gap. It includes protections against retaliation for discussing pay, bans the use of prior salary history, and mandates pay data collection.
Join us in advocating for these changes and creating a more equitable workplace. Click here to take action!
*We acknowledge that many data sources collect data based on binary sex, limiting our ability to fully represent the experiences of trans- and non-binary parents and caregivers. This practice is beginning to change—the U.S. Census Bureau collected data on sexual orientation and gender identity for the first time in a major survey in 2021. We hope that this will become a more common practice going forward.
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