According to the US Census Bureau, in 2005 women earned 77 cents for every $1 earned by men, statistically unchanged from 2004. The wage gap costs the average American full-time working woman between $700,000 and $2 million over the course of her lifetime, according to economist Evelyn Murphy, president of the WAGE Project
To fight this injustice, Women Work! strives to educate individuals about the wage gap, including how to work with employers to implement fair pay policies; fight the wage gap in their own lives; and advocate for equal pay legislation on both federal and state levels.
Women deserve to be paid according to their productivity and economic worth–not by their gender.
Capitol Hill Equal Pay Day Rally
Fighting the Wage Gap Fact Sheet (pdf file, 91 kb)
Statistics and charts comparing age, gender, family type and other characteristics affecting wages.