According to the federal government, “[a]lthough the gender pay gap has narrowed since the signing of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, women earned 82 cents for every dollar a man earns, according to 2020 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.”1 As a result, women would have had to work an extra 42 days to earn what men did in 2020.2 And according to the Department of Labor, “[m]any women of color were paid even less. For example, Black women were paid 64%, and Hispanic women (of any race) were paid 57% of what white non-Hispanic men were paid.”3 To level the playing field, state and local governments are turning to pay transparency laws to try to reduce and ultimately eliminate the gender pay gap. READ MORE