Despite a growing patchwork of pay transparency laws, the gender pay gap in the United States remains mostly stagnant. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA), enacted as an amendment to the Fair Labor ...

Back in 2021, survey data from the Society for Human Resource Management reflected that nearly 58 percent of U.S. employers voluntarily conducted pay audits. With sweeping pay equity legislation being ...

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The latest Workplace Gender Equality Act (WGEA) data for 2025 shows 54.8% of employers reduced their average total ...

As the Trump administration changes the federal approach to diversity, equity and inclusion policy and takes aim at employers’ use of certain inclusive programs, approaches to pay equity could hang in ...

A new Payscale report also found that the majority of employers still believe DEI is a worthwhile undertaking. Of the nearly 3,600 companies surveyed last year, 38% said they are planning to make no ...

September 18 is International Equal Pay Day, a United Nations observance that calls out a stubborn truth: Women still earn about 20% less than men worldwide, with even wider gaps for women of color ...

Learn how comparable worth aims to ensure pay equity by valuing different roles equally, addressing gender pay gaps, and impacting the free market wage dynamics.

I write to add my voice to the discussion on pay equality, which has recently revealed disturbing divisions in the business community. It is discouraging enough to know that despite the passage of the ...

The Erie County Industrial Development Agency is getting ready to start doing random audits at companies receiving tax breaks to make sure they’re paying men and women the same for doing the same work ...