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What would your family do with $434,000

Improving pay equity would create substantial economic gains for women and their families. A new report found that women lose approximately $434,000, on average, over a 40-year period because of the gender wage gap.* Other studies show that moms, especially single moms, fare even worse with the gender wage gap.

But the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is standing in the way of fair pay by opposing pay equity reform proposals in Congress that are needed to achieve pay equity. Tell the U.S. Chamber of Commerce what your family would do with $434,000 and more importantly, tell the Chamber to get out of the way of fair pay.

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Subject:

Your Letter:

I am writing to ask that the U.S. Chamber take a positive step toward supporting fair pay for women by ending its opposition to the Paycheck Fairness Act and pay equity reform efforts in Congress.
 
Improving pay equity would create substantial economic gains for women and their families.  A new report found that women lose, on average, approximately $434,000 over a 40-year period because of the gender wage gap. The gender wage gap is the annual difference in median wages between men and women who are employed full-time and it widens over time. And moms, especially single moms, fare even worse.
 
The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which recently passed Congress, and the Paycheck Fairness Act are important first steps toward making sure that women are paid what they are worth. These pieces of legislation would make it easier for women to recover lost wages due to bosses who discriminate and by requiring the federal government to be more proactive in preventing and battling wage discrimination.
 
Your mission statement reads, "To advance human progress through an economic, political and social system based on individual freedom, incentive, initiative, opportunity, and responsibility."  Would you please explain how opposing efforts to pay women what they are worth advances that mission?
 
Improving pay equity leads to greater economic security for women and their families. It improves a family’s ability to send several kids to college, to set up secure retirement accounts, and to make payments on home mortgages.
 
Again, please end your opposition to the Paycheck Fairness Act and pay equity reform.  Should the Chamber not do so, I intend to follow up with my local chamber of commerce as well as businesses I support that are members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

U.S. Chamber of Commerce
1615 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 90062-2000
US

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