Today is the 50th Anniversary of the Equal Pay Act: Our Children and Grandchildren Should Not Wait Another 50 Years for Economic Fairness
The Equal Pay Act was landmark legislation. As Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi remarked in a press conference last Thursday:
He [President John F. Kennedy ] knew it was a first step to end the 'unconscionable practice'āin his wordsāof paying women less than men for the same amount of work. But in the course of 50 years, loopholes in the Equal Pay Act were carved out and exploited. Disparities affecting minority women widened. And the āunconscionable practiceā persists.


