{"id":7027,"date":"2021-06-08T20:16:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T20:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-pay-discrimination-against-women-must-end\/"},"modified":"2021-09-14T20:21:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T20:21:14","slug":"sen-ossoff-pay-discrimination-against-women-must-end","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-pay-discrimination-against-women-must-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff: Pay Discrimination Against Women Must End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><br>Sen. Ossoff urges bipartisan vote this week to end pay discrimination against women<\/em><br><em>Sen. Ossoff was an original sponsor of the \u201cPaycheck Fairness Act\u201d in February<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Washington, D.C. \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong>This afternoon, Georgia U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is leading the charge to end pay discrimination against women in Georgia and across the country.&nbsp;<br><br>Sen. Ossoff is urging a bipartisan Senate vote this week to pass the&nbsp;<em>Paycheck Fairness Act<\/em>, which would&nbsp;strengthen enforcement of the&nbsp;<em>Equal Pay Act of 1963<\/em>&nbsp;as the wage gap between men and women performing the same jobs persists to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff was an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/senate-bill\/205\/cosponsors?searchResultViewType=expanded\">original sponsor<\/a>&nbsp;of the legislation when it was introduced in February. The bill could receive a vote in the Senate as early as this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPay discrimination has been illegal since 1963, yet women are still not paid equally for equal work,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cI am urging my colleagues to come together to pass the&nbsp;<em>Paycheck Fairness Act<\/em>&nbsp;and end pay discrimination against women once and for all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/117\/bills\/s205\/BILLS-117s205is.pdf\">Click here<\/a>&nbsp;to read the&nbsp;<em>Paycheck Fairness Act<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ossoff urges bipartisan vote this week to end pay discrimination against womenSen. Ossoff was an original sponsor of the \u201cPaycheck Fairness Act\u201d in February Washington, D.C. \u2014&nbsp;This afternoon, Georgia U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is leading the charge to end pay discrimination against women in Georgia and across the country.&nbsp; Sen. Ossoff is urging a [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7027","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/7027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/7027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7299,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/7027\/revisions\/7299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}