Mujeres Advancing Pay and Gender Equity

December 8 marks Latina Equal Pay Day, which marks how far into the year Latinas must work to earn what their white male counterparts earned last year. Understanding that closing gender and racial wage gaps is critical for cultivating an equitable economy and unleashing women’s economic power, the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence and Economic Opportunity for Hispanics invites you to join us for this event featuring inspiring women in the Biden-Harris Administration who’ll share how they and their federal colleagues are working to close the pay gap and advance economic security for Latinas, women and traditionally marginalized communities.

The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to advancing pay equity, closing gender and racial wage gaps and advancing economic security for all – including Latinas who have historically faced the widest pay gap. In 2021, Latinas were paid 54 cents to the dollar paid to white men.

Join us in this event to:

• Learn more about how the White House and federal agencies are driving a strategic, whole-of-government approach to advancing gender equality and gender equity, including pay equity.
• Gain insights into work that’s underway related to advancing pay equity for the Federal workforce, job applicants and employees of Federal contractors. As the nation’s largest employer, these practices can help support pay equity efforts in other workplaces.
• Hear panelists’ personal lessons learned along their career journeys for advocating for their pay and benefits
• Get inspired and network with other Latinas and allies as we work collectively to build a more equitable economy, address systemic barriers that have hampered women from fully thriving in the workforce and spark more wealth-building in our communities.

Location:

• U.S. Department of Education Auditorium, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20202
• Enter through the public entrance on C Street SW, between 4th and 6th Streets SW.
• Upon enter, guests must clear security then provide a government issued ID to the front desk.

Schedule:

• 2:30 p.m. – Registration and Networking
• 3:00-4:30 p.m. – Remarks & Panel featuring Mujeres (Women) in the Biden-Harris Administration

Speakers:

• Melody Gonzales, Executive Director, White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Hispanics
• Khalilah Harris, Chief of Staff, U.S. Office of Personnel Management
• Bibi Hidalgo, U.S. Small Business Administration Associate Administrator for Government Contracting & Business Development
• Maribel Duran, U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Chief of Staff
• Suzanne Goldberg, U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategic Operations and Outreach and Senior Designee to the White House Gender Policy Council
• Janis Bowdler, U.S. Department of Treasury, Counselor to the Secretary for Racial Equity

Note: This is an in-person event. It may be live streamed if technology allows. Updates will be posted regularly to ed.gov/hispanicinitiative and the Initiative’s Facebook and Twitter accounts.

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Additional Resources & Reading:

• The White House Hispanic Initiative and Biden-Harris Administration officials will also be speaking at the Latina Equal Pay Day Summit on December 9th, from 9 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. at the Senate Dirksen Building in Washington, D.C. hosted by Justice for Migrant Women, Equal Pay Today!, partners and elected and appointed officials. View details and register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-latina-equal-pay-summit-tickets-469305183437
• Agency priority goal on closing racial and gender pay gaps in the federal government https://www.opm.gov/about-us/strategic-plan/agency-priority-goals
• First Ever White House National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/National-Strategy-on-Gender-Equity-and-Equality.pdf
• March 15, 2022 White House Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Commitments to Advance Pay Equity and Support Women’s Economic Security https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/15/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-commitments-to-advance-pay-equity-and-support-womens-economic-security/
• Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau report detailing how women, especially women of color, were impacted by the COVID-19 economic crisis and the role of occupational segregation, “Bearing the Cost: How Overrepresentation in Undervalued Jobs Disadvantaged Women During the Pandemic”
• August 18, 2022 U.S. Department of Labor Blog, Advancing Pay Equity Through Compensation Analysis by Jenny Yang, Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs https://blog.dol.gov/2022/08/18/advancing-pay-equity-through-compensation-analysis