One hundred and four years ago, American women won the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment, bringing us closer to living up to our Nation’s most fundamental values of dignity, fairness, freedom, and equality. On Women’s Equality Day, we recognize the courage of generations of visionaries who fought tirelessly for…
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A Proclamation on National Equal Pay Day, 2024
On National Equal Pay Day, we highlight the injustice of gender wage gaps by marking how far into this year women have to work, on average, to earn what men made last year. Over a lifetime, these inequities can amount to millions of dollars lost for women who do not receive the wages they…
A Proclamation on Women’s Equality Day, 2023
America is the only Nation in the world based on an idea — the idea that all people are created equal and deserve to be treated equally throughout their lives. We have never fully lived up to that idea, but we have never walked away from it either. On Women’s Equality Day, we…
A Proclamation on Blind Americans Equality Day, 2023
On Blind Americans Equality Day, my Administration celebrates the contributions that people who are blind or low vision have made to our country, and we recommit to creating a more accessible Nation where everyone has the opportunity to realize their full potential. More than 33 years ago, the United States Congress passed the Americans with…
President Biden’s FY 2025 Budget Advances Gender Equity and Equality
The President’s FY 2025 Budget includes critical policies for women and families across the country and around the world. It will give families more breathing room; support workers and strengthen the care economy; expand access to high-quality health care and improve health outcomes; prevent and address gender-based violence; and advance gender equality around the world.…
Neera Tanden Remarks at the National Summit on Equal Opportunity in Education
As Prepared For Delivery: Thank you, James [Kvaal], for the kind introduction. Your key leadership at the Department of Education is ensuring that America’s colleges and universities remain the best in the world—in large part, thanks to their diversity. Good morning, everyone. It’s wonderful to be here alongside so many administrators, elected officials, advocates, students,…
A Proclamation on National Equal Pay Day, 2023
Despite historic growth, rising wages, and unemployment at a near record low, women working full-time, year-round are paid an average 84 cents for every dollar paid to men. Pay disparities are even more pronounced for Black women, Native American women, Latinas, many Asian American women, and women with disabilities. On Equal Pay Day,…
Statement from President Joe Biden on Equal Rights Amendment Centennial
One hundred years ago, a pioneering group of women proposed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) which would definitively enshrine the principle of gender equality in the Constitution. Now, a century later, our fight continues to finish the job and codify women’s rights and gender equality once and for all. I have long supported the ERA since…
Honoring 60 Years of the Equal Pay Act and Advancing Pay Equity
June 10, 2023 Today is the 60th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, a law that laid the foundation to ensure that workers in this country receive equal pay for equal work, regardless of their sex, for doing substantially similar jobs. It was the first of many laws that protect workers from pay…
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Anniversary of Landmark Marriage Equality Rulings
Today marks the anniversary of three landmark Supreme Court cases which were consequential in affirming the basic truth that every American should have the right to marry the person they love. Ten years ago today, the Supreme Court rulings in United States v. Windsor and Hollingsworth v. Perry made significant strides laying the groundwork for…
