coalition manager
Reports to: Evelyn Murphy, The WAGE Project
Location: Massachusetts
Start Date: Immediately
Wage Equity Now Coalition (WEN)
WEN was initially formed by Jackie Jenkins Scott, Evelyn Murphy, and Andrea Silbert to support and promote passage of The Transparency Act of 2021 which was introduced by Senator Paul Feeney and Representatives Liz Miranda and Liz Malia. The Black Economic Council of Massachusetts (BECMA) and Amplify Latinx have since joined the coalition as lead partners.
This bill is a foundational step for eliminating racial and gender wage gaps in Massachusetts. It requires all employers –private, non-profit and governmental –with 100 or more employees to report the average wages by gender, race, and ethnicity for the entire organization, and also to report the proportions of the top 10 earners by race, gender, and ethnicity. Most critically, it requires release of this data to the public at the institutional level to provide for comparative a
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