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LinkedIn Becomes Latest Company to Sign Equal Pay Pledge Championed by California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom
SACRAMENTO – California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom today applauded LinkedIn for becoming the latest company to sign California’s Equal Pay Pledge. By signing the pledge, the company has committed to conduct an annual company-wide gender pay analysis, review LinkedIn’s hiring and promotion processes and procedures to reduce unconscious bias and structural barriers, and promote best practices to help close the pay gap and ensure fundamental equity for all workers. In 2019, as part of her California for ALL Women initiative, the First Partner launched the Equal Pay Pledge in partnership with the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls (CCSWG) and the California Labor & Workforce Development Agency. The goal of the pledge is to build upon the state’s nation-leading equal pay laws by closing the existing gender wage gap.
“Closing the gender wage gap requires smart policy and cultural change,” said First Partner Siebel Newsom. “At the state level, our leaders consistently work to ensure our laws move the needle toward equity. And when companies like LinkedIn take the lead on this issue and sign the Equal Pay Pledge, we’re able to make tremendous progress towards true societal change. I encourage Californians to look at the companies they purchase from and ensure they have signed the pledge. If not, please urge those companies to take the pledge. As long as the pernicious wage gap exists, women, particularly mothers and women of color, are receiving a very clear message in this country that women are of less value, that our work is valued less than men’s work, and that a woman’s ability to not just survive, but thrive, matters less than that of a man.”
“The California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls is so proud to add LinkedIn to the list of companies striving toward gender equity who have taken the Equal Pay Pledge,” said CCSWG Executive Director Holly Martinez. “California has some of the strongest pay equity laws in the nation but we also need the support of private industry leaders who understand that closing the wage gap is good for business. Women are essential to California’s economy and workforce and they deserve to be compensated fairly for their labor. Thank you LinkedIn for taking a stand for equity and keeping California a global leader in business.”
California has some of the strongest equal pay laws in the country, but women in the state still earn, on average, 88 cents for every dollar a man earns and mothers earn 77 cents for every $1 earned by a father. These numbers plummet nationally to 64 cents, on average for Black women, 54 cents for Latina women, and 51 cents for Native women. The gender wage gap also creates staggering financial losses with California women losing an estimated $87 billion each year. The State of California signed the Equal Pay Pledge in January 2022, building on Governor Gavin Newsom’s commitment to ensuring that the state’s workforce practices are reflective of the highest standards of equity.
Since the Launch of the Equal Pay Pledge, First Partner Siebel Newsom has helped connect thousands of Californians to educational equal pay resources, hosted roundtables and conversations to hear firsthand about the pay gap’s impact on working women and their families, and secured more than 60 major corporate commitments to the Equal Pay Pledge – reaching hundreds of thousands of employees.
To date, the following employers have signed California’s Equal Pay Pledge: State of California, Adobe, Airbnb. Apple, AT&T, Autodesk, Blue Shield of California, Box, Branch Metrics, Brilliant Earth Group Children’s Home of Stockton, Chipotle, Cisco, Drift, Edison International, The Grateful Dog, Inc, eBay, Fisher & Phillips LLP, First Capitol, Gap Inc., Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, Gusto, Ike Robotics, Intel, Just Us 4 Youth, Lending Club, Liveconvos.tv, Maxim Integrated, Mattel, Medallia Inc., Metromile, Nextdoor, Ripple Foods, Salesforce, Shutterfly, Simplecast, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Snapdocs, Social Glass, Square, State of California, SunRun Inc., Sunshine Sachs, TuSimple, Twitter, Uber, and Zynga.
First Partner Siebel Newsom is committed to lifting up women and mothers and their ability to thrive both at work and at home. In addition to the Equal Pay Pledge, she’s been an outspoken advocate for reproductive freedom, championed California’s work to increase equitable representation at the tables of power by diversifying public company boards in the state, and advocated for family-friendly policies such as paid leave and child care.
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