{"id":7103,"date":"2021-08-03T21:34:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T21:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-rep-williams-lead-charge-to-end-pay-discrimination-against-black-women\/"},"modified":"2021-09-14T20:21:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T20:21:37","slug":"sen-ossoff-rep-williams-lead-charge-to-end-pay-discrimination-against-black-women","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-rep-williams-lead-charge-to-end-pay-discrimination-against-black-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff, Rep. Williams Lead Charge to End Pay Discrimination Against Black Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013\u2013 Today, on Black Women\u2019s Equal Pay Day, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff joined Georgia Congresswoman Nikema Williams (GA-05) in introducing the&nbsp;<em>Equal Pay for Equal Work Enforcement Act<\/em>&nbsp;to strengthen enforcement of equal pay laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The legislation will reestablish the National Equal Pay Enforcement Task Force to strengthen enforcement of equal pay laws nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPay discrimination has been illegal since 1963, yet women are still not paid equally for equal work \u2014 and this discrimination especially targets Black women. I thank Congresswoman Williams for her continued leadership to crack down on pay discrimination that hurts women in Georgia and across the country,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>said Sen. Ossoff<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEight months after 2020 concluded, Black women, on average, are just now catching up to make the salary their male counterparts earned last year alone. It is simply wrong that in the 21st Century, women still face pay inequity,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>said Congresswoman Williams<\/strong>. \u201cOn this day \u2013 Black Women\u2019s Equal Pay Day \u2013 we have to rededicate ourselves to ensuring equal pay for equal work. This legislation will bring us a step forward, ensuring the equal pay laws on the books are well enforced.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since his swearing in, Sen. Ossoff has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-pay-discrimination-against-women-must-end\/\">led the charge<\/a>&nbsp;to close the wage gap and end pay discrimination in Georgia and across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/21.08.03_Equal-Pay-for-Equal-Work-Enforcement-Act.pdf\">Click here<\/a>&nbsp;to read the&nbsp;<em>Equal Pay for Equal Work Enforcement Act.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;\u2013\u2013 Today, on Black Women\u2019s Equal Pay Day, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff joined Georgia Congresswoman Nikema Williams (GA-05) in introducing the&nbsp;Equal Pay for Equal Work Enforcement Act&nbsp;to strengthen enforcement of equal pay laws. The legislation will reestablish the National Equal Pay Enforcement Task Force to strengthen enforcement of equal pay laws nationwide. \u201cPay discrimination [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7103","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/7103","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\/7103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7375,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/7103\/revisions\/7375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}