The bill, an expansion and update to the Equal Pay Act of 1963, failed to pass the Senate today.
Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963 -- women who worked full-time earned only 77 percent of what their male counterparts did.
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This comprehensive and common sense bill updates and strengthens the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which made it illegal for employers to pay unequal wages to men and women who perform substantially equal work.
Despite legislation like the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Lilly Ledbetter Act of 2009, and the fact that women currently make up half of the U.S. workforce, the Census Bureau reports that women still earn only 77 cents to each dollar a man earns.
Despite the 50-year anniversary of the Equal Pay Act this year, women continue to earn less than men across most job functions.
Fast forward to 2012, as we approach the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, and gender discrimination is still being debated and still making headlines, most recently in the form of a lawsuit brought by Ellen Pao against Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins.
They open the door to potential lawsuits as those inaccuracies could point toward gender discrimination or other points of the Equal Pay Act.
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How many years has it been since the passage of the Equal Pay Act?
Regardless, President Obama responded by highlighting the first bill he signed in 2009, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which removed the previous 180-day statute of limitations for filing an equal-pay lawsuit when a worker found out later that they had been unfairly discriminated against.
Equal Pay: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act provides protection against pay discrimination, but the protection is useless if suits must be brought before employees know of the discrimination.
Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, which prohibits arbitrary discrimination against women in the payment of wages.
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