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Resources

  • Examining Employer Compensation Practices That Contribute to Pay Inequities

    In this powerful webinar, leading experts examine how common employer compensation practices perpetuate gender and racial pay inequities, particularly in academic settings. Our distinguished panel explores actionable solutions to the wage gap and recent legal developments that are reshaping workplace equity.

  • Legislation Summaries

    Background, talking points, and highlights of The Paycheck Fairness Act (H.R. 17/ S. 728).

  • 🚨 The EEOC Turns 60 – But Worker Protections Are Under Attack

    Wednesday, July 2 marks the 60th anniversary of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency that has protected millions of workers from workplace discrimination since 1965. But this milestone comes with an urgent warning. The Trump administration is dismantling the EEOC’s core mission, firing commissioners, and installing leadership that refuses to protect transgender workers and threatens diversity programs. After six decades of defending civil rights in the workplace, the agency meant to protect ALL workers is being weaponized against them.

  • 2025-2026 Policy Agenda

    Equal Pay Today is thrilled to release our new 2025-2026 Policy Agenda. Equal Pay Today, a national coalition consisting of over 50 state, national, and tribal advocacy organizations, will be working to enact or defend these critical wage justice protections with an intersectional focus on our most marginalized communities.

  • Pay Equity is Power: Advocating for Native Women’s Economic Justice

    Pay Equity is Power: Advocating for Native Women’s Economic Justice is a webinar hosted by Equal pay Today about the importance of economic security for Native women and their families.

    Conversation hosted by representatives of Equal Pay Today, Return to the Heart Foundation, Coalition to Stop Domestic Violence Against Native Women, Native Women Lead, Not Our Native Daughters, and the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center

  • The Truth Behind the Pay Gap: Advocating for Disabled Women

    Join Noreen Farrell (Executive Director of Equal Rights Advocates and Chair of Equal Pay Today) and Sylvia Torres Guillien (Executive Director & Director of Litigation, Disability Rights Legal Center) as they break down the wage gap for disabled women and share the policy changes needed to achieve pay equity.

  • Virtual Fireside Chat on Pay Equity: A Conversation with the White House Gender Policy Council

    Join Deborah J. Vagins, the Director of Equal Pay Today with Equal Rights Advocates for a conversation with Rhea Fernandes, Special Assistant to the President for Gender Policy with the White House Gender Policy Council, to discuss the Biden Administration’s work on pay equity and economic security.

  • Investing in Native Women: A Conversation about Native Women’s Equal Pay Day

    Equal Pay Today hosted an intimate conversation with Gina Jackson (Western Shoshone and Oglala), Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Return to Heart Foundation and Allie Young (Diné), Director and Founder of Protect the Sacred, moderated by Deborah J. Vagins, National Campaign Director and Director of Equal Pay Today with Equal Rights Advocates.

  • #LevelThePayingField: The Importance of Equal Pay

    In support of the EEOC’s #LevelThePayingField campaign, Equal Rights Advocates and Equal Pay Today speak out about the realities of pay discrimination in the lives of underpaid women and their families. Hear from Deborah J. Vagins, National Campaigns Director at Equal Rights Advocates and Director of the Equal Pay Today Campaign in this short video.

  • The Power of Pay Equity: Investing in Black Women

    The Equal Pay Today Roundtable held a conversation with EEOC Chair Charlotte A. Burrows and the incredible leaders of Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. We discussed the pay gap for Black women, the contributors to this ongoing problem, the devastating impacts on Black women and their families, and solutions for closing the pay gap once and for all.