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Do one thing todayto help close the wage gaps ⏬ Download Checklist ACTIONS

You found this page to gets things done for equity. Following offers a checklist for individuals and groups to take actions and share.

Checklist of pay equity ACTION below: follow through…

  1. Have three discussions today about pay equity at work and educate others to visit PayEquityCoalition.com
  2. Read Know-Your-Rights Toolkit: ⏬ DOWNLOAD THIS TOOLKIT New York’s New Equal Pay Laws: A Know-Your-Rights Toolkit
  3. Take FREE Salary Negotiation training PayEquityCoalition.com EDUCATE page
  4. Advocate for private sector employers to
       • provide better benefits
       • train hiring managers in equitable practices to break implicit & explicit biases • post salary ranges online (help for 2020 salary range posting requirement bill)
  5. Healthcare workers visit HealthCareWorkersRising.org for free trainings, resume & interview preparation, quality job placement, & fight for better wages & benefits
  6. Support The Children’s Agenda recommendations on poverty at this website https://thechildrensagenda.org/the-agenda/poverty/ Expand benefit levels and eligibility guidelines for the Empire Child Tax Credit (to include children under 4), the Earned Income Tax Credit (to including childless adults, adults 25 and under, and increasing the state’s add-on), and New York State Child Care Tax Credit.
  7. Take initiative to use this 🛠ACTION-KIT for your own cause to help close the wage gaps.

We thank you for your Pay Equity ACTIONS to help close the wage gaps

Let us know how you did, JOIN US at our next meeting or rally and press conference.


Pay equity legislation has passed in New York State! Thank you to all of those who visited Albany, who made phone calls and who sent emails! Take a moment to celebrate.

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—Minda Harts

Library Hold This Book This hands-on manual provides Latinas with the tools they need to succeed at work by examining some of the societal and cultural obstacles that hinder their progress.  

Library Hold This Book A potent and electrifying critique of today’s feminist movement announcing a fresh new voice in black feminism.  “In theory, public housing and section 8 programs should be closing the pay gap—that is, after all, their are purpose. Yet families are back to having to share small units in defiance of occupancy codes because of cost. Tetris is a game meant to be played with blocks, not people. And the affordable housing crisis disproportionately impacts women. With the pay gap, women earn less, so they pay more proportionately, and that intern means household supported by women are paying larger-than-average proportions of income toward rent.”
—Mikki Kendall

Library Hold This Book or 🔊Audio Book on CD The first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company looks back at her life and her career at Xerox, sharing unique insights on American business and corporate life, the workers she has always valued, racial and economic justice, how greed is threatening democracy, and the obstacles she’s conquered being Black and a woman.
—Ursula Burns

Library Hold This Book Policy makers can take a number of critical lessons from the analyses in this volume.

Library Hold This Book book is for girls who want to live boldly, who have a red-hot fire deep down in their gut, who are smart enough to be mad and bold enough to demand change.
—Kaelyn Rich

Library Hold This Book or 🔊Audio Book on CD “How can women and their families get ahead when they’re getting undercut and shortchanged?”
-Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator for New York State

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