Study shows gender inequity in pay in PA

The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) released a state-by-state analysis of the gender wage gap in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia to mark Equal Pay Day — the day when the typical woman’s earnings catch up to her male counterpart's earnings from 2012.

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“This June, fifty years will have passed since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, and the gap in wages has barely budged—shrinking only 18 cents in five decades and remaining stagnant for the last decade,” said NWLC co-president Marcia D. Greenberger.“Equal pay is not an abstract principle for women and their families. It means thousands of dollars of lost wages every year that cut deeply into household budgets and force many families to go without basic necessities.”