Equal Pay Day 2012 & Twitter Chat w/ Labor Dept and the Nati

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Equal Pay Day 2012 & Twitter Chat w/ Labor Dept and the National Equal Pay Task Force

Yesterday, April 17 was Equal Pay Day. This date is significant because it symbolizes how far women must work into 2012 to earn what men earned in 2011.
Every year, the Department of Labor commemorates Equal Pay Day by providing all working women and their employers with information, resources and tools to help them close the pay gap. This year is no different. Today, various agencies at the Department have partnered together to provide new, innovative tools to support our mutual goal of achieving equal pay for women. This year you can find all of the Department’s information on equal pay in one convenient location: www.dol.gov/equalpay.

This new webpage offers visitors links to key, updated information on women’s earnings, new brochures for women and employers on equal pay rights and our newly unveiled equal pay applications (“apps”). Come learn about the app challenge developers and what the new apps can do for you.

On Friday, April 20, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. EDT, the Women’s Bureau will host an Equal Pay Twitter Chat with members of the President’s National Equal Pay Task Force including: the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, the Department of Justice and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The Women’s Bureau has also invited two special guests to our Tweet Chat: Lisa Maatz (@LisaMaatz) the Public Policy and Government Relations Director from the American Association of University Women and Latinos in Social Media (LATISM) Vice-Chair, and app challenge judge, Elianne Ramos (@ergeekgoddess).

The purpose of the Twitter chat is to bring awareness of the continued need for equal pay and to educate women about resources available to them.

We’d love your participation and your help advertising the chat which will run for one hour starting at noon on Friday using the hashtag #equalpaychat.
You can send us your questions before or during the event via Twitter to @USDOL using hashtag #EqualPayChat or by email before the event to womensbureaunetwork@dol.gov.

We look forward to hearing from you on Friday, and we strongly encourage you to visit www.dol.gov/equalpay. (For more information on the Equal Pay Twitter Chat, please contact Carmen Drummond at Drummond.Carmen@dol.gov.)