The White House is marking Equal Pay Day by taking new steps aimed at ending the gender pay gap for federal workers and contractors
by taking new steps aimed at ending the gender pay gap for federal workers and contractors.
The Office of Personnel Management also is considering a regulation to address the use of prior salary history in hiring and setting compensation for federal workers. For instance, women who remained in the labor force during the pandemic and worked full time often had higher earnings than their counterparts who lost low-paying jobs, indicating that 2020 figures cannot be compared with wage gap data from prior years, Tucker said.
This year, the administration is looking for new ways to combat pay disparities and drawing attention to high-profile efforts to combat the wage gap, such as the U.S. women's national soccer team's“I think we’re going to look back on this moment and just think, ‘Wow, what an incredible turning point in the history of U.S. Soccer that changed the game and changed the world, really, forever,’” star midfielder Megan Rapinoe said at the time.
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