DeLauro and Democratic Women’s Caucus Mark Equal Pay Day, Introduce Paycheck Fairness Act

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Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) will host a press conference with the Democratic Women’s Caucus and leading advocates to reintroduce their legislation, the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would strengthen the Equal Pay Act of 1963, help eliminate the gender wage gap, and guarantee that women can challenge pay discrimination and hold employers accountable. March 25th marks Equal Pay Day, the day when women's earnings catch up to what their male counterparts earned in the previous year. More than five decades after the passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the gender wage gap widened for the first time in 20 years. Across the U.S., women still earn just 75 cents for every dollar paid to men, resulting in a gap of $14,170 each year. The wage gap costs women in the U.S. nearly $1.7 trillion a year. The gap exists in every state, regardless of geography, occupation, education, or work patterns. The Paycheck Fairness Act would help close the gender pay gap for women across the country.