Nonprofit Quarterly: Gender Equality Advocates Advance Pay Equity at State Level

April 24. 2025

Policy Director & Deputy Legal Director Jessica Ramey Stender is featured in a Nonprofit Quarterly article about recent developments in pay equality legislation and state policy led by Equal Rights Advocates and our partners:

“A grounding principle in our work to pass laws to close the gender and racial wage gap is that a lot of people only think about pay discrimination as a contributor to the wage gap, and it is a big factor, but there are other factors that we need to also address,” Jessica Ramey Stender, policy director and deputy legal director at Equal Rights Advocates informs NPQ. …

Stender underscores the importance of increased pay transparency: “We know that in the United States, traditionally, and in other places, there has just historically been a lack of transparency around pay, and it’s often been seen as taboo to talk about pay or ask about pay—where [employers] prohibit employees from talking about pay or sharing pay. So another way that we’ve addressed that issue through legislation is by passing laws that prohibit these pay secrecy rules.”

Read the article.