Lawmakers request new GAO gender pay study

[Judi Lynn]

Source: The Hill


BY NIV ELIS - 06/28/18 06:23 PM EDT

Four members of Congress have requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conduct a new review of gender pay inequity in the federal workforce, including the implications of race and ethnicity on pay.

"It has been nearly a decade since GAO last addressed these critical issues," Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wa.), Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) and Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) wrote in a letter to GAO.

The last GAO study, conducted in 2009, found an 11 percent pay gap between men and women in 2007.

Though that gap was smaller than the national average, GAO could not explain the 7 percent of wage differential even after accounting for a slew of factors such as occupation, geography, education, and management level, raising the possibility of unequal pay for equal work.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/finance/394739-lawmakers-request-new-gao-gender-pay-study

[BigmanPigman]

1. At first I said WHAT?!?

Then I read who the reps are...all Dems of course.

[cstanleytech]

2. I know my brothers wife only earns 11.50 an hour as a cake decorator with Walmart where as my

my brother is earning 14.50 as a produce clerk so considering her job is an actual skill I would say that there is a huge pay gap and its probably due to her being a women.