Women's Equality Day: Reason to Celebrate?
As a Founding Partner, I invite you to r ead the latest blog from Spectra Diversity, www.spectradiversity.com. It would seem we don’t have much to celebrate this August 26, which aims to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the 19 th Amendment prohibiting the states and federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the U.S. on the basis of sex. This Women’s Equality Day it is becoming evident how the more things change, the more they tend to stay the same; and in 2018, it would seem, things also took a step back. Financial Disparity for Women In Spring of 2017, President Trump called for a radical change as he signed executive bills reversing the Fair Pay and Safe Workplace order. Obama placed this legislative order in 2014. The Fair Pay and Safe Workplace order mandated that businesses had to report a step-by-step “wage statement” of their earnings to the Department of Labor. This order also raised the minimum wage and banned discrimination of gender minor
