Join Change The Story VT, our partnership initiative with Vermont Works for Women, and the Vermont Women's Fund for the launch of the innovative new Leaders for Equity and Equal Pay (LEEP) Toolkit Tuesday, June 8th, noon to 1:00 PM.

The LEEP Toolkit is an easy-to-use, free-to-you resource crafted by experts in the field, to ensure gender and racial pay equity at your organization.

Over the past year, the Change The Story VT initiative partnered with Sadowski Consulting Services and seven Vermont employers to develop the LEEP Toolkit. The LEEP Toolkit includes:

Based on median earnings for full-time, year-round workers, women are paid 82 cents for every dollar paid to men.  Vermont Commission on Women (VCW) presented the second in a series of Equal Pay Day video podcast conversations on March 24th, the day into the year women need to work before their earnings catch up to those of men in 2020 due to the wage gap.

(Montpelier) - The Vermont Commission on Women (VCW) joins organizations nationwide in drawing attention to Equal Pay Day each year.  Equal Pay Day symbolizes how far into this year women must work to catch up to what the average white non-Hispanic man earned in the previous year.

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Coinciding with legislative action, VCW debuted a new information sheet about the issue of access to menstrual supplies. A bill regarding menstrual products, S.32, was introduced in the Vermont Senate to ensure students have free, immediate access to menstrual supplies within their school restrooms, and another bill, H.260 was introduced in the House to require availability in both public school restrooms and correctional facilities.  Two additional bills, H.53 and S.53 were introduced to remove the non-essential items tax.  Read our new info sheet.