On Monday morning, the National Women’s Law Center and Planned Parenthood Federation of America said they had increased that number significantly by submitting nearly 350,000 comments from a coalition that supports the mandate.
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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Wyoming women are still bringing home the least income in the nation when compared with men. That’s according to a new study by the National Women’s Law Center.
Median pay in the state for a woman working full time is $31,274 per year compared to $41,420 for a man, meaning women are paid about 76 cents for every dollar paid to men, according to reports from the National Partnership for Women & Families and the National Women’s Law Center.
The government may appeal the judge’s decision or try to limit it in other states, Marcia Greenberger, co-president of the National Women’s Law Center in Washington, said in an interview. Its impact on the rest of the country depends to some degree on what the government does, she said.
The Becket Fund is arguing in court that the religious exemption is too narrow because it excludes people like the Christian owners of Hobby Lobby, who morally object to contraception.
The National Women's Law Center found women in California are paid on average 85-cents for every dollar earned by a man, well-above the national average of 77-cents.
But Hispanic women did not fare well, earning just 43 cents for every dollar paid to white non-Hispanic men.
California's results surprised Fatima Goss Graves with the Law Center.
And, the gender wage gap, which narrowed considerably over a 30-year period leading up to the turn of the century, has virtually flattened in the past 10 years. Nationally women made 77 percent of what men earned in 2011, the most recent year for which data are available, and that number was virtually unchanged since 2002, the National Women’s Law Center reported. […]
