In California state government, women earn 80 cents on the dollar compared to men

The Sacramento Bee: California’s path-breaking bid to end workplace pay disparities faces one of its widest gender wage gaps among the state’s own employees.

A new report from the California Department of Human Resources shows that women in the state workforce earn about 79.5 cents on the dollar compared to men.

That’s a greater disparity than the gender pay gap in both California’s private sector and in the federal workforce, according to the report.

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