To: The California State House, The California State Senate, and Governor Gavin Newsom
Support the Equal Pay Bill!
Call for the California state assembly to pass the equal pay bill, and for Governor Brown to sign it!
Why is this important?
According to Equal Rights Advocates, a national civil rights organization based in San Francisco, a woman in California working full time made a median of 84 cents for every dollar a man earned. You might be wondering if that statistic is from 1965 or something... it's not. It's from 2013.
Most people I've talked to have personally experienced the wage gap. A couple years ago, I was working in a cafe and found out that the inexperienced 19-year-old new guy made $10 an hour while I only made $8.50--even though I had 7 years of server and barista experience under my belt, including 6 months at this place.
Even our country's most successful women have encountered this, including talented actors like Patricia Arquette, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress earlier this year and called for wage equality in her acceptance speech.
A bill to close the wage gap that women face at work passed the Senate floor on a unanimous, bipartisan vote earlier this week. The measure would give California the toughest law in the nation to ensure that women are paid the same as men for performing jobs that are substantially similar.
But the fight isn't over: The bill now goes to the state Assembly before heading to Governor Brown's desk.
Show your support! Equal pay for equal work!
Most people I've talked to have personally experienced the wage gap. A couple years ago, I was working in a cafe and found out that the inexperienced 19-year-old new guy made $10 an hour while I only made $8.50--even though I had 7 years of server and barista experience under my belt, including 6 months at this place.
Even our country's most successful women have encountered this, including talented actors like Patricia Arquette, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress earlier this year and called for wage equality in her acceptance speech.
A bill to close the wage gap that women face at work passed the Senate floor on a unanimous, bipartisan vote earlier this week. The measure would give California the toughest law in the nation to ensure that women are paid the same as men for performing jobs that are substantially similar.
But the fight isn't over: The bill now goes to the state Assembly before heading to Governor Brown's desk.
Show your support! Equal pay for equal work!