HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2018.10.25 - 23852MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #18371
BY: Commissioners Marcia Gershenson, District #13 and Janet Jackson, District #21
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS – SUPPORT FOR H.R. 6284 – THE BETTER PAY AND
LIFETIME EARNINGS FOR TEENAGE GIRLS THROUGH ADULTHOOD ACT
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS early work experiences (part-time and in the summer) can provide valuable opportunities for
teens to learn new skills, gain experience, expand their networks and develop positive relationships with
adults; and
WHEREAS teenage girls, in their early work experience, are subject to the gender wage gap when they
enter the workforce; and
WHEREAS gender pay inequality emerges as early as 14 or 15 years of age and persists through full-time
adult employment; and
WHEREAS studies indicate that the wage gap begins in the teenage years as young people enter the labor
market working in both freelance and employee-type jobs with the gap widening with age; and
WHEREAS research demonstrates how girls are being socialized early, by parents and employers, to
expect less money for more work and away from negotiating for better pay; and
WHEREAS the gap is partially explained by the jobs teens choose — teen boys tend to move into
employee-type (formal) jobs while girls remain freelancers (informal jobs); and
WHEREAS expectations in the workplace are different for teen girls than for teen boys and this impacts
young people's beliefs about work, gender, race and inequalities; and
WHEREAS the impacts of the pay gap, from early on and over a lifetime, leads to a loss of earnings
weakening economic mobility and a women's wealth with greater effects on women of color; and
WHEREAS in 2017, women earned 82% of what men earned, according to a Pew Research Center
analysis of median hourly earnings of both full- and part-time workers in the United States. Based on this
estimate, it would take an extra 47 days of work for women to earn what men did in 2017; and
WHEREAS a recent study from the National Partnership for Women & Families concludes that, in sum,
women employed full-time in the United States will lose nearly $900 billion to the wage gap in 2018; and
WHEREAS H.R. 6284 – Better Pay and Lifetime Earnings for Teenage Girls Through Adulthood Act has
been introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives, to direct the Secretary of Labor to conduct a study
on the early pay gap in the teenage labor force; and
WHEREAS the Act will examine the early wage gap's relation to greater gaps in the overall labor force,
conduct comparisons between average earnings of males and females in similar jobs and estimate the
overall lifetime losses for women, including women of color; and
WHEREAS the study will provide recommendations to address pay inequality for young women and
develop standards of best workplace practices to prevent these early inequities; and
WHEREAS closing the wage gap needs to start from the moment teenage girls enter the workforce; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners supports H.R. 6284 to examine pay inequality for
young women and the need to develop standards of best workplace practices to prevent these early
inequities.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVES that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners proclaims their
support of H.R. 6284, the Better Pay and Lifetime Earnings for Teenage Girls Through Adulthood Act of
2018 and recognizes the importance to close the wage gap for teenage girls entering the workforce, as well
as, through adult employment.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Clerk/Register of Deeds is requested to forward
copies of this adopted resolution to the United States House of Representatives, the House Committee on
Education and the Workforce, the United States Secretary of Labor and the Oakland County members of
the Michigan Congressional delegation.
Chairperson, I move the adoption of the foregoing Resolution.
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Resolution #18371 October 25, 2018
The Vice-Chairperson referred the resolution to the General Government Committee. There were no
objections.