Carol Fulp, President and CEO of The Partnership, has been appointed to serve on the statewide Advisory Committee on Wage Equality, a public-private advisory committee established by Treasurer Deborah B. Goldberg. Its charge: identify the best practices from across the state to develop innovative strategies to address the Commonwealth’s wage gap.
Treasurer Goldberg announced five central goals to address the sates economic disparities, where today women in Massachusetts earn just 82 cents on the dollar, African-American women earn 61 cents, and Latina woman earn just 50 cents.
The group will provide government agencies with tools to review their pay structure, putting a clear focus on pay equity in every hiring decision and salary offer; develop a wage equality tool kit for businesses who want to enact equal pay; plan a statewide conference for April 2016 that will bring policymakers, businesses, and organizations together to share best practices to close the wage gap; organize regional roundtables across the state to get input from businesses on how to make a public-private partnership work and launch a state-run equal pay website, which will serve as a one-stop shop for employers and employees. The website will include the wage equality tool kit, a salary calculator, facts about the wage gap, and a pay equity FAQ page.
“Pay equity is not a partisan issue, nor solely a women’s issue. It is a family issue, and it affects the economic health and well-being of our entire state,” Goldberg said. “This committee will develop concrete strategies and highlight best practices from both the private and public sectors so the Commonwealth can address this critical economic issue and lead the nation in implementing wage equality initiatives.”
