Men and women should be paid the same for the same amount of work.
Pretty straightforward.
But Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno spoke just last Wednesday at the third annual Women Entrepreneurship Week conference at Montclair State University about how often such major disparities can be overlooked.
McCarter & English in Newark was the only law firm headquartered in New Jersey to meet the requirements for the 2016 Gold Standard Certification. It has, along with only 11 other firms nationwide, achieved gold standard certification for each of the six consecutive years that WILEF has been awarding it.