Melissa Fugiero
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Melissa Fugiero contributed the article “Equal Pay Act of 1963” to SAGE Publications’ Encyclopedia of Governance (2007), and a version of this article was used for her Britannica entry on this topic.
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Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA), landmark U.S. legislation mandating equal pay for equal work, in a measure to end gender-based disparity. The National War Labor Board first advocated equal pay for equal work in 1942, and an equal pay act was proposed in 1945. Eighteen years later, on June 10, 1963,…
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