Resources

Released for Moms’ Equal Pay Day 2026, this report lays out a roadmap to end the motherhood penalty. Working moms are paid just 64 cents for every dollar paid to fathers, with even wider gaps for Black, Latina, and Indigenous mothers, while shouldering billions in unpaid care work. It calls for paid family leave, affordable childcare, caregiver anti-discrimination protections, stronger pay equity laws, fair wages for care workers, and robust enforcement solutions, already winning in states across the country and building momentum for federal change.

This webinar brought together a distinguished group of leaders and activists on the frontlines of empowering Black women and their communities at the state and national levels. As Black women fight longstanding and systemic inequities in access to equal wages, wealth, and power, our basic rights are now under heightened attack.

Black women working full-time, year-round make just 65 cents for every dollar paid to their white male counterparts. This report tracks the state of wage justice for Black women and the policy solutions to close the gap.

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

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.

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 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

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.

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.