Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Tweet[IWS] EQUAL PAY DAY is 25 APRIL 2006 [for WOMEN]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
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National Committee on Pay Equity
25 April 2006 = EQUAL PAY DAY
EQUAL PAY DAY KIT for 2006
http://www.pay-equity.org/day-kit.html
Example of forthcoming action:
Women's Pay Gap - April 22 Press Conference
202-777-8962
New Nationwide Collaborative Grassroots Movement to Close Wage Gap Announced
In 2006, more than four decades after the passage of the Equal Pay Act, full-time year round working women in the United States according to the 2005 Census Bureau still earn only 77 cents for every dollar earned by a full-time working man.
The wage gap costs the average American full-time woman worker between $700,000 and $2 million over the course of her lifetime. Equal Pay Day, a nationwide grassroots event to draw attention to the wage gap issue, is in April to signify how far into the year a woman must work in order to earn the wages paid to a man in the previous year.
On Equal Pay Day 2006, the National Committee on Pay Equity, a coalition of organizations working to eliminate wage discrimination, in collaboration with Business and Professional Women/USA (BPW/USA), the WAGE Project, a new grassroots organization dedicated to closing the wage gap, and other leading national organizations, will announce a new nationwide grassroots movement designed to close the wage gap once and for all. Through this movement, WAGE Clubs are forming to mobilize groups of women to talk about the wage gap and to obtain the tools, support and momentum they need to get even at work. These WAGE Clubs are being created throughout the country and will meet regularly throughout the year.
Groups spearheading this effort will be joined by Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), sponsors of the Paycheck Fairness Act, and Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Representative Eleanor Holmes-Norton (D-DC), sponsors of the Fair Pay Act who will discuss the current status of their equal pay legislation and the need for multiple approaches to this longstanding problem.
WHAT
: Press Conference
Roslyn Ridgeway, President, Business and Professional Women USA
see -- http://www.bpwusa.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1
Annie Houle, Founder, The Maine WAGE Project and the New England Regional Representative to the YWCA National Advocacy Board
see-- http://www.wageproject.org/ and http://www.wageproject.org/content/news/#newsitem1144622350,83069,
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
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Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
National Committee on Pay Equity
25 April 2006 = EQUAL PAY DAY
EQUAL PAY DAY KIT for 2006
http://www.pay-equity.org/day-kit.html
Example of forthcoming action:
Women's Pay Gap - April 22 Press Conference
202-777-8962
New Nationwide Collaborative Grassroots Movement to Close Wage Gap Announced
In 2006, more than four decades after the passage of the Equal Pay Act, full-time year round working women in the United States according to the 2005 Census Bureau still earn only 77 cents for every dollar earned by a full-time working man.
The wage gap costs the average American full-time woman worker between $700,000 and $2 million over the course of her lifetime. Equal Pay Day, a nationwide grassroots event to draw attention to the wage gap issue, is in April to signify how far into the year a woman must work in order to earn the wages paid to a man in the previous year.
On Equal Pay Day 2006, the National Committee on Pay Equity, a coalition of organizations working to eliminate wage discrimination, in collaboration with Business and Professional Women/USA (BPW/USA), the WAGE Project, a new grassroots organization dedicated to closing the wage gap, and other leading national organizations, will announce a new nationwide grassroots movement designed to close the wage gap once and for all. Through this movement, WAGE Clubs are forming to mobilize groups of women to talk about the wage gap and to obtain the tools, support and momentum they need to get even at work. These WAGE Clubs are being created throughout the country and will meet regularly throughout the year.
Groups spearheading this effort will be joined by Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), sponsors of the Paycheck Fairness Act, and Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Representative Eleanor Holmes-Norton (D-DC), sponsors of the Fair Pay Act who will discuss the current status of their equal pay legislation and the need for multiple approaches to this longstanding problem.
WHAT
: Press Conference
Roslyn Ridgeway, President, Business and Professional Women USA
see -- http://www.bpwusa.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1
Annie Houle, Founder, The Maine WAGE Project and the New England Regional Representative to the YWCA National Advocacy Board
see-- http://www.wageproject.org/ and http://www.wageproject.org/content/news/#newsitem1144622350,83069,
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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