Nehmen Sie Teil an einem Dialog zwischen der ehemaligen Direktorin des Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs der Obamaregierung, Patricia Shiu, und der Investigativjournalistin Birte Meier zum Thema gleichberechtigter Bezahlung in den Vereinigten Staaten und in Europa. Zeitgleich mit der 64. Versammlung der United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, tragen 1014 und das American Council on Germany diese Veranstaltung aus, die die derzeitige Situation der Geschlechtergleichstellung aus einer transatlantischen Perspektive reflektiert. Was sind Wege nach vorn um die Lohnlücke zu schließen? Welche sind die besten Ansätze und wo haben politische Entscheidungsträger*innen in den letzten Jahren versagt? Warum ist es so schwierig, Regulierungen einzuführen, die dabei helfen würden, die Lücke zu schließen?

Moderiert von Steven Sokol, President of the American Council on Germany (ACG).

Patricia Shiu is a consultant on diversity and inclusion policies that reflect an organization’s mission, culture, and brand. Appointed by President Barack Obama, Ms. Shiu served as the Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) at the Department of Labor (DOL) in Washington, DC from 2009-2016. OFCCP enforces laws that prohibit workplace discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, and veteran status. OFCCP regulates the federal contractor community that employs approximately 20% of the American workforce.

While at DOL, Ms. Shiu and her team updated OFCCP regulations prohibiting discrimination and requiring affirmative action on the basis of sex, disability and veteran status. They also finalized new regulations, adding sexual orientation and gender identity as protected categories, and prohibiting discrimination against applicants and employees who inquire about, discuss or disclose their or another employee’s compensation.

Birte Meier, born in 1971, studied at the FU Berlin, the University of Chicago and the University of the Arts Berlin and holds a master's degree in North American Studies, Modern History, and Journalism. Since 2007, she has been a Frontal21 editor, producing investigative economic stories and profound political contributions - primarily on digitalization, globalization and the transformation of the market economy and democracy.

During her current fellowship at Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles, Birte Meier researches and publishes on Equal Pay: In California, there has been a cultural change in the matter of Equal Pay. Women are beginning to successfully demand equal pay for equal work. How did California do that? What can Germany learn from California so that women are empowered to effectively demand their constitutional right to equal pay?