Norcross, Tammy Murphy Lead Discussion on
Women in the Workforce: Raising Voices, Raising Pay

WASHINGTON, DC – This Monday, March 5, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) – a member of the House Education and the Workforce Committee – will host a conversation on Women in the Workforce: Raising Voices, Raising Pay with New Jersey First Lady Tammy Murphy during the first week of Women’s History Month.

Norcross has been outspoken on policies that support and empower women in the workforce, like raising wages, and Murphy publicly joined the #MeToo movement at the New Jersey Women’s March this year.

“Throughout the past year, many courageous women have been raising their voices – and I commend their bravery, honesty and resolve,” said Congressman Norcross. “Women must keep speaking up and speaking out to their representatives. From pay inequity to paid leave and the unaffordable cost of child care, women and families are facing challenges that can be eased through good policy. Let’s listen, learn and take action.”

“In 1963, President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, which was intended to prohibit wage discrimination based on sex. Yet fifty-five years later, serious disparities persist. Women today earn, on average, only 82 cents for every dollar a man earns. For African-American women, it’s just 58 cents, and if you’re a Latina, it’s only 43 cents,” said First Lady Tammy Murphy. “With Governor Murphy and Lt. Governor Sheila Oliver, I am committed to securing for every woman in New Jersey the right to earn her fair share: 100 cents on the dollar. In 2018, we must do better, for all the women of the great state of New Jersey and their families.”

Norcross has been holding conversations like this one around New Jersey’s First District. In the past year, he held a roundtable on gun safety in schools in Blackwood, a discussion with young professionals in Oaklyn, an inaugural summit on women in the workforce in Haddonfield, an event on millennials at work in Glassboro, and a community conversation on the disease of addiction in Washington Township.

Reporters interested in attending are asked to please RSVP to Ally.Kehoe@mail.house.gov  

WHAT:          Congressman Norcross and First Lady Murphy lead conversation on Women in the Workforce: Raising Voices, Raising Pay

WHERE:        Rutgers University – Camden
Campus Center

                        326 Penn Street

Camden, NJ 08102

WHEN:          Monday, March 5, 2018 – 11:30 a.m.

WHO:           

• Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01)
• New Jersey First Lady Tammy Murphy
• Community leaders

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