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Happy Equal Pay Day, Women! (Not That Your Pay is Equal Yet)

Page Gardner, AlterNet. April 20, 2010.

Fifty years after the passage of the Equal Pay Act, women still earn only 77 cents to every dollar earned by a man. It's time for the Senate to enact the Paycheck Fairness Act.

Congress Sets Sights on Closing the Wage Gap

Allison Stevens, Women's eNews. January 23, 2009.

More than 40 years after Congress passed a law making it illegal for employers to pay women less than men for the same work, women still earn less.

Pay Equity: Raise Your Voice for Equal Pay for Equal Work

Christy Hardin Smith, Firedoglake. January 8, 2009.

Democratic leadership in the House has vowed to push forward with the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act.