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Equal Pay for Equal Work

Press Release

Date: April 12, 2016
Issues: Women Employment and Affirmative Action

It's pretty simple: Everyone should get equal pay for equal work.

But still to this day, women are routinely underpaid for their work. On average, women earn 79 cents for every dollar a man makes -- and that's got to change.

In Congress, I'm going to fight to close the gender pay gap by adding teeth to our equal pay laws.

It's about more than basic fairness. When women do better, all working families do better. Paying working women what they deserve means more working families can afford to save for college and retirement.

With your support, we can end the gender pay gap.


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