attended by members of the women's soccer team.
Biden on Tuesday also planned to sign an executive order that encourages the government to consider banning federal contractors from seeking information about job applicants’ prior salary history. And a new Labor Department directive is aimed at strengthening federal contractors’ obligations to audit payrolls to help guard against pay disparities based on gender, race or ethnicity.
The Office of Personnel Management also is considering a regulation to address the use of prior salary history in hiring and setting compensation for federal workers. On average, women working full-time, year-round are paid 83 cents for every dollar paid to their male counterparts, according toAnd while data shows that the pay gap is at its smallest ever, theso that "what we’re seeing is an artificial narrowing," said Jasmine Tucker, director of research at the National Women’s Law Center.
For instance, women who remained in the labor force during the pandemic and worked full time often had higher earnings than their counterparts who lost low-paying jobs, indicating that 2020 figures cannot be compared with wage gap data from prior years, Tucker said.to advance women's and girls' "full participation" in the United States and around the world.