[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4664]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  EQUAL PAY DAY: CLOSING THE WAGE GAP

  (Mr. DAVIS of Illinois asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge Congress to 
pass legislation that will guarantee equal pay for equal work for 
women. Equal pay for equal work should not even be a question in the 
year 2002. Yet women earn only 73 percent of wages earned by men for 
doing the same work with the same qualifications. For African American 
women, it is only 64 cents on a dollar; and for Hispanic women, 52 
cents for every dollar earned by men. The time for pay equity is now. 
Let us do the right thing: pass equal pay for women.

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