Pay Equity
In 2005, the Council delivered its first report on pay equity, written by then Council member and Ralph Owen Distinguished Professor of Economics Yasmeen Mohiuddin of the University of the South. The Gender Wage Gap focuses on the relationships between income, occupation, and gender. Additionally, the extent of the gender wage gap in each Tennessee county may be found in each county analysis.
An article by former Council Executive Director Lauren Howard complements these more detailed glimpses into Tennessee’s pay equity by examining the general trends of women’s wage disparity. Published in a Middle Tennessee State University magazine on women’s issues, it constructs a case which supports the Equal Pay Remedies and Enforcement Act of 2004 and sets the stage for the Council’s work the following year.
Pay equity remains an issue upon which the Council remains focused, especially as legislation further addressing wage discrimination continues to be proposed in the Tennessee General Assembly.
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