Gender Wage Gap Analysis

The gender wage gap in California has been know about for many years, but no one is willing to step up and say something about it for fear of retaliation by employers. People have tried to put changes in place in the past, but they all failed when tried to get passed. Finally on Tuesday, California’s first wage equality measure was passed and signed into law. The act says that women in the state have to be paid the same as their male counterparts. In the past, women were paid as little as 84 cents to the dollar that men earned. It also protects women who challenge their gender pay differences, from retaliation.

This new law will take effect on January 1st of 2016. Governor Jerry Brown signed this measure into law at the Rosie the Riveter