USA Today, March 24, 2021, ‘Inequality still exists’: Congresswoman to hold hearing on pay gap on Equal Pay Day
In 2021, pay disparities and discrimination still exist between men and women, and Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., wants people to know that Equal Pay Day is not one of celebration.
“This day marks the extra time it takes an average woman in the United States to earn the same pay that their male counterparts made the previous calendar year,” Maloney, chairwoman for the House Oversight Committee, told USA TODAY.
Maloney is holding a hearing on Wednesday — Equal Pay Day — to examine the pay gap, the disproportionate inequalities women of color face, discuss several pieces of “feminist legislation,” and hear from witnesses like U.S. Women’s National Team soccer star Megan Rapinoe.
Maloney told USA TODAY ahead of the hearing there is “a long way to go to achieve economic equality for women. The data is abundantly clear that this inequality still exists.” She also emphasized the disparities caused, and exacerbated, by COVID-19.
