Assault on Wage Gap Forcing Industry to Pay More Than Lip Service
A series of articles on gender pay equity, 21 Oct. 2016

The movement to bring gender pay equity to the American workforce...in the last two [years] has hit a seemingly fever pitch. Women are filing multimillion-dollar class action lawsuits against their employers, more than half of the United States has moved to enact some form of tougher pay equity legislation and the concept of pay equality has become a focal point of the presidential election.

ALM wanted to take a closer look at why these issues are bubbling up so intensely now—more than 50 years since the federal Equal Pay Act of 1963 attempted to address the issue—and what the legal, financial and insurance industries are doing about it. Along the way, we learned some interesting facts and heard some fascinating stories about the real-world impact of gender discrimination in the workplace...

Law Firms a ‘Petri Dish’ for Bias, Gender Inequity...

Decades After Wolf Block Suit, Ezold Calls For More Gender Bias Litigation[refers to Farmers Group Insurance, Salesforce, Gap]...

Partner Pay Equity Long Overdue, Say Women Law Firm Leaders [refers to Bryan Cave, LeClairRyan, Chadbourne & Parke, Mintz Levin, Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass]...

Professional Services Firms Increasingly a Target of Pay Equity Suits [refers to Goldman Sachs, Chadbourne & Parke, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Home Depot, Wal-mart]...

Obama Administration Champions Pay Equity, But Some Allege Overreach...

States Look to Give Teeth to National Pay Equity Legislation