The U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will participate in a “Tweet Chat” on Tuesday,
April 9 from 1-2 p.m. ET to discuss the pay gap between women and men. The
Equal Pay Tweetchat, using the hashtag #talkpay, is sponsored by the National
Women’s Law Center, with these distinguished guests:
·
U.S. EEOC Chair Jacqueline Berrien
·
Jocelyn Samuels, Principal Deputy Assistant
Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice
·
U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski (MD)
·
Congresswoman
Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-3)
During the chat, EEOC, along with
other organizations, will answer questions on the issue of pay discrimination
using its Twitter handle @EEOCNews.
The EEOC seeks to heighten
awareness of gender-based wage discrimination on Equal Pay Day, which is held
annually in April to signify the point in the year that a woman must work to
earn what a man made the previous year. According to the most recent data,
women earn only 77 percent of what men earn in a full-time annual salary.
The EEOC has been at the forefront
of the federal government’s effort to secure equal pay for women. As part of
the National Equal Pay Enforcement Task Force created by President Obama, the
Commission has undertaken important efforts to raise awareness and strengthen
enforcement of wage discrimination laws. The 50th Anniversary of the
Equal Pay Act, enforced by the EEOC, will be commemorated this June.
The EEOC is the federal
government agency responsible for enforcing anti-discrimination laws in
the workplace. Further information about the EEOC is available
at www.eeoc.gov.
