EEOC and OPM have issued a joint memo saying that although progress has been made in closing the gender pay gap, the government must work harder to narrow it.
OPM estimates that women in the federal workforce make about 11 cents less on the dollar than men for equal work – or about 7 cents after taking into account differences in education and other factors.
In July 2010 a “national equal pay task force” of representatives from EEOC, OPM and the Departments of Labor and Justice recommended that OPM and EEOC work together to "implement a strategy to improve the federal government’s role as a model employer."
EEOC said that together with these agencies it is working with GAO to identify the reasons for this wage gap and ways to close it, but did not indicate any specific additional actions agencies should take at this time.
