Female workers on Long Island are paid 80 cents for every $1 earned by their male counterparts, a pay gap that local and state leaders on Tuesday, April 2, vowed to end.
In Hauppauge, county legislators, nonprofit executives, soccer coaches and four young athletes held a news conference in support of a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Women's Soccer Team. The team alleges disparate pay and treatment by the U.S. Soccer Federation compared with the U.S. Men's Soccer Team.
The local group chose Equal Pay Day, which symbolizes how far into the new year women need to work to make what men did in the previous year, to appeal to the public to sign a petition endorsing the lawsuit.
