 Fifteen years ago today, President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, demonstrating America's commitment to gender equity. A lot has changed since then. The gender wage gap has shrunk from 23 percent to 16 percent, although it remains higher for Black, Hispanic, and Native women. At the Department of Labor and across the Biden-Harris administration, our work to achieve equity in the workplace continues. We're addressing caregiving penalties so that women and all workers can care for themselves and their families without losing pay. And we're taking steps to further reduce the wage gap for federal employees and contractors. The fight for pay equity isn't over, but thanks to Lilly Ledbetter and policies like Patron's Parency and salary history bans and other tools, we are narrowing the wage gap.