WOMEN LEGISLATORS CALL FOR END TO WAGE GAP

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WOMEN LEGISLATORS CALL FOR END TO WAGE GAP

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WOMEN LEGISLATORS CALL FOR END TO WAGE GAP : Lawmakers called for an end to the wage gap between men and woman Tuesday at an observation of "Equal Pay Day." Hosted by the Caucus of Women Legislators, the annual April 12 event marks the day of the year to which women would need to work in order to earn the same average wages that men earned the previous year. Attorney Lauren Stiller Rikleen, founder of the Rikleen Institute for Strategic Leadership, said women still earn only 77 percent of the total wages earned by men and are pursuing degrees in expanding industries like information sciences and engineering at slower or decreasing rates. "If some of those facts don't enrage all of us, I don't know what will," said Sen. Karen Spilka (D-Ashland.) Lawmakers are pushing two pairs of bills to close the gap. Rep. Alice Wolf (D-Cambridge) and Sen. Patricia Jehlen's H 1415 and S 931 require comparable wages for comparable work between sexes. Sen. Harriette Chandler and Wolf are pushing bills (S 931 and H 1567) authorizing a study to update the state job classification system to determine job comparability. According to the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus, state laws prohibit employers from paying male or female employees differently for comparable work and the bills will address loopholes by defining "comparable work." Spilka said after the event that Senate President Therese Murray is aware of the bills. Spilka hopes to have the bills passed by the end of the current legislative session. "We have the motivation and the will to get this done," Spilka said. 04/12/2011

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