'The often-cited 82-cent pay gap underestimates the true deficit. It doesn’t take into account bonuses, benefits and commissions—which accrue disproportionately to male jobs.'
In August 2017, without any public notice or opportunity to weigh in, the administration reversed Obama’s executive order and blocked the income data collection, claiming that it was “unnecessarily burdensome” for businesses. In fact, it’s not at all burdensome to report, says Sunu Chandy, legal director of the National Women’s Law Center .
The NWLC sued the administration to require collection of the data. Joined by Democracy Forward and the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, NWLC won a huge victory in Washington, D.C., in March 2019 when U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan ruled that the administration broke the law when it stopped the income data collection; she ordered the EEOC to require employers to submit the data.
At press time, a Trump administration appeal was pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and the EEOC had announced a proposal to permanently stop collecting pay data from employers, allowing them to continue to hide the fact that they are paying women and people of color less than white men.
“The gender wage gap has not changed in a statistically significant way for over a decade,” Jessica Stender of Equal Rights Advocates testified at a recent hearing on the EEOC proposal in Washington, D.C. “It is therefore critical that the agencies charged with enforcing equal pay and antidiscrimination laws are able to take proactive steps to identify and better address pay discrimination.”
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