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  • CCF Equal Pay Symposium: 50 Years Since the Equal Pay Act of 1963

    Posted on June 7, 2013 in Online Symposia, Press Releases
    Experts: Stephanie Coontz / Virginia Rutter

    Fifty years ago this week, on June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, amending the earlier Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, to “prohibit discrimination on account of sex in the payment of wages by employers.” So, how’s that going?

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    Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / Gender & Sexuality / Labor & Workforce / Race, Ethnicity & Culture / Work & Family
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    Gender Bias and the Fight for Equal Pay

    Posted on June 7, 2013 in Brief Reports


    By Sheryl Sandberg Chief Operating Officer, Facebook and Founder, www.leanin.org For more information, or to arrange an interview, contact Andrea Saul: press@leanin.org In 1947, Anita Summers, the mother of my longtime mentor Larry Summers, was hired as an economist by the Standard Oil Company. When she accepted the job, her new boss said to her, […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Labor & Workforce / Work & Family
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    Which Policies Promote Gender Pay Equality?

    Posted on June 7, 2013 in Brief Reports


    By Joya Misra Professor of Sociology & Public Policy University of Massachusetts, Amherst misra@soc.umass.edu; 413-545-5969 Why do women earn less than men? Research points to a number of different explanations, but one of the central factors remains women’s caregiving responsibilities. The wages of childless men and women have been converging steadily over the last three […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Labor & Workforce / Work & Family
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    Happy Birthday Equal Pay: Pregnancy Accommodation as the New Frontier

    Posted on June 7, 2013 in Brief Reports


    By Joan C. Williams, Director of the Center for WorkLife Law, Hastings Foundation Chair, University of California, Hastings College of the Law williams@uchastings.edu; (415) 565-4706 Key pieces of legislation passed in the 1960s and 1970s – including the Equal Pay Act, Title VII, and Title IX – have greatly decreased, though not eliminated, direct discrimination […]

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    The Wrong Route to Equality: Men’s Declining Wages

    Posted on June 7, 2013 in Brief Reports


    By Heidi Shierholz Labor Market Economist Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC hshierholz@epi.org, (202) 775-8810 In the late 1970s, after a long period of holding fairly steady, the gap in wages between men and women began improving. In 1979, the median hourly wage for women was 62.7 percent of the median hourly wage for men; by […]

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    Topics of Expertise: History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Labor & Workforce / Work & Family
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    Men against Women, or the Top 20 Percent against the Bottom 80?

    Posted on June 7, 2013 in Brief Reports


    By Leslie McCall Professor of Sociology and Political Science Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research Northwestern University l-mccall@northwestern.edu It used to be that the most economically successful women earned no more than the typical man, even when they had more education and held more highly skilled jobs. In 1970, the average woman in the top […]

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    Topics of Expertise: History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Labor & Workforce / Work & Family
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    Equal Pay? Not Yet for Mothers

    Posted on June 7, 2013 in Brief Reports


    By Shelley J. Correll Professor of Sociology Director Clayman Institute for Gender Research Stanford University scorrell@stanford.edu; 650-721-1736 Last month, hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones set off a controversy when he remarked that “you will never see as many great women investors or traders as men.” In his experience, Jones claimed, a woman did fine until […]

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    From the Folks Who Brought you the Weekend: What Unions Do for Women

    Posted on June 7, 2013 in Brief Reports


    The Equal Pay Act is often presumed to be an accomplishment of the feminist movement of the 1960s. In fact, it was spearheaded by female trade unionists, who first introduced the bill in 1945 as an amendment to the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act. The bill was defeated, largely because of staunch opposition from business interests, but a coalition of labor activists reintroduced it every year until it finally passed in 1963.

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    Topics of Expertise: Feminism & Families / Labor & Workforce / Work & Family
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    CCF Gender Revolution Symposium: Gender Evolution among Employed Men

    Posted on March 6, 2012 in Brief Reports


    By Ellen Galinsky President Families and Work Institute Phone: 212.465.2044 Email: egalinsky@familiesandwork.org I prefer to think of changes in gender relations and values as an evolution, with ups and downs and uneven progress in different areas. It is not at all clear that changes in men’s attitudes and behaviors have stalled. In 1977, three-quarters (74 percent) […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Labor & Workforce / Work & Family
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    International Report Card on Parenting Policies: U.S. Gets a “Gentleman’s C”

    Posted on August 30, 2008 in Press Releases


    By Rebecca Ray, Research Assistant Center for Economic and Policy Research Janet C. Gornick, Professor of Political Science and Sociology Graduate Center, the City University of New York John Schmitt, Senior Economist Center for Economic and Policy Research When it comes to giving fathers and mothers equal access to time off from work to care […]

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    M. V. Lee Badgett

    Professor of Economics, School of Public Policy UMass Amherst; Williams Institute UCLA

    Kathleen Gerson

    Collegiate Professor of Sociology, New York University

    Jennifer Glass

    Professor of Sociology , University of Texas, Austin

    Jeffrey Hayes

    Program Director, Institute for Women's Policy Research

    Roberta Iversen

    Associate Professor and Faculty Director of the Master of Science in Social Policy program, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice

    Arielle Kuperberg

    Associate Professor of Sociology, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

    Elizabeth Peters

    Director, Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population, Urban Institute

    Justin Wolfers

    Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan

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