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Did women influence passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963?

April 26, 2017ACT influence Passage pay women

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Did women influence passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963?

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Yes, they did! Many women helped to make the Act possible over the course of generations. More specifically, Esther Peterson, the head of the Women’s Bureau (and a friend of JFK) and Eleanor Roosevelt (the widow of former president Roosevelt) pressured JFK to establish a President’s Commission on the Status of Women. He appointed Eleanor Roosevelt as Chair of the commission and Peterson as Executive vice-chair. The work of the commission is largely responsible for the passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963.