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Board proclaims April 2025 Equal Pay Awareness Month and highlights local pay gaps
Summary
Santa Clara County supervisors adopted a proclamation recognizing April 2025 as Equal Pay Awareness Month and speakers urged continued action to close large local wage gaps, especially for Latinas and other women of color.
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors adopted a proclamation declaring April 2025 as Equal Pay Awareness Month and invited leaders from the Office of Women's Policy, the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, and the Commission on the Status of Women to the dais.
Vice President Yong opened the presentation and cited county and state statistics. "Women in California were paid only 87¢ for every dollar paid to men and ... women in Santa Clara County were only paid 74¢ for every dollar paid to men," Yong said, citing the 2024 California women's well‑being…
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