Despite Ledbetter Act, gender wage gap continues to affect working women

    President Barack Obama signed his first piece of legislation into law four years ago today. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was intended to end gender pay disparity.

    Let’s make sense of the latest data in Congress’ report on gender pay disparity with Carol Tracy, executive director of the Women’s Law Project. She says the gender wage gap continues to affect working women.

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