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We have to close the salary gap between men and women. The National Committee on Pay Equity reports that median salaries for women are almost 25 percent less than men’s. Just as troublesome, mothers were less likely to be hired than women without children and earn $11,000 less on average.
Lifton has consistently fought for pay equity legislation for women, including measures that would:
Enact the New York State Fair Pay Act, ensuring pay differentiation is not based on a person’s sex or national origin (A.3637)
Implement a state policy for equal compensation for work of comparable worth for state employees (A.305)
Make discriminatory salary practices unlawful, especially in traditionally female-dominated occupations (A.2825)
Make it unlawful for public employers to compensate employees of opposite sexes differently for work of comparable worth (A.9466)
Children need a safe setting with consistent caregivers. This care can help working families cope with daily pressures.
Last fall, Lifton held an Assembly Roundtable in Ithaca to learn how we could improve our child care system. In response, she drafted and passed legislation to help provide needed, reliable day care for our families and children by:
Establishing an advisory council of child care providers (A.11130)
Improving recruitment and retention of day care providers (A.11133)
Studying the accessibility and affordability of health care policies, including business and liability insurance, to help recruit and retain staff (A.11134)
Allowing child care providers to opt out of posting addresses and other identification on the Office of Children and Family Services Web site, to limit information access by sex offenders (A.11131)
