CITY OF SEATTLE
RESOLUTION _________________
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A RESOLUTION re-affirming the City's commitment to gender pay equity and expressing the City's intent to join 100% Talent, a regional Gender Pay Equity Initiative, as a founding member, and to help implement the Initiative as a means to strengthen gender pay equity in Seattle and the region.
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WHEREAS, racial and gender-based disparities in pay and opportunities for employment and advancement persist across the Seattle region; and
WHEREAS, in 2013 a National Partnership for Women and Families report revealed that women in the Seattle region earned 73 cents for every dollar a man earned and the gap for women of color is even wider; and
WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council recognize equity in the workforce as fundamental to ensuring employers and employees maximize their potential and that the actions of local government contribute to the health and well-being of everyone in Seattle; and
WHEREAS, the Mayor and City Council enacted Resolution 31523 to identify where racial and gender-based disparities exist, the causes for those disparities, the intrinsic relationship between race and gender that contributes to gender inequity and changes that should be made to address barriers to equity; and
WHEREAS, also in resolution 31523, the Mayor and City Council recognized the leadership role the City should take in addressing gender wage equity and committed to working with regional partners in the public and private sector to develop a regional gender pay equity initiative; and
WHEREAS, in 2015 the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Women's Funding Alliance launched 100% Talent, a regional gender wage equity initiative, similar to efforts in the City of Boston and other municipalities, to engage private sector employers in closing the gender wage gap; and
WHEREAS, the goal of the initiative is to have five-hundred companies in the Seattle region pledge to take three voluntary actions to help c...
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