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Equal Employment Opportunities and Affirmative Action
This St. Norbert College offers a research presentation that provides brief overviews of the equal employment laws, executive order 11246, and hiring processes.
US National Archives
Nara: Explaining Trends in the Gender Wage Gap
This White House site provides a report on the gender wage gap by the Council of Economic Advisers. Includes historical data and statistical information, information on the different factors that affect gender pay, what pay...
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Eeoc: Equal Pay Act of 1963: Full Text
This is the full text of the 1963 Equal Pay Act which ensured equal pay for women.
Digital History
Digital History: Feminism Reborn
This comprehensive survey of the women's movement during the 1960s and 1970s documents women and politics, women's wages, legal discrimination against women, stereotypes of women, women's rights legislation, and women's rights...
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Afl Cio: Time for Working Women to Earn Equal Pay
This article discusses the impact of the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in achieving equal pay for women. Links to related articles.
Digital History
Digital History: The Equal Rights Amendment
In 1972, Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution. The ERA subsequently failed to be ratified by the necessary number of states and was never added to the Constitution.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Equal Pay Act
Detailed facts on the 1963 Equal Pay Act that established equal pay for equal work among men and women.