President Donald Trump, flanked by Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, left, and Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, signs a series of bills during a ceremony in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 27. One of the bills that Trump signed was H.J. Res. 37, which nullifies the rule issued by the Department of Defense, the General Services Administration and NASA implementing the Obama-era executive order on “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces.”
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With little notice, President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order that advocates say rolls back hard-fought victories for women in the workplace.

Tuesday’s “Equal Pay Day” — which highlights the wage disparity between men and women — is the perfect time to draw more attention to the president’s action, activists say.

On March 27, Trump revoked the 2014 Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces order then-President Barack Obama put in place to ensure that companies with federal contracts comply with 14 labor and civil rights laws. The Fair Pay order was put in […]