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Issue Position: Equal Pay for Equal Work

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2012
Issues: Women Employment and Affirmative Action

Across the country, women earn 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, and over their careers, that means they take home hundreds of thousands of dollars less than men. Here in Massachusetts, women earn 81 cents for every dollar a man earns. While that's better than the national average, that's not good enough. At a time when the economy is still hurting, women are essential to making sure working families in this Commonwealth and across the country can get by. Unfair pay - especially for single-parent households - makes it even harder for these families to stay afloat. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.


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