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On the 55th Anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, a U.S. Senator Reflects on Gender Equality in America

June 10, 2018

Medium // Senator Heidi Heitkamp

Fifty-five years after President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp offered her perspective on how the landscape for female workers has changed in her lifetime, citing her difficulty entering both law and politics, and took the opportunity to point out how far both her home-state and the nation still have to go before achieving equality.

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