Tech companies sign President Obama's equal pay pledge

Twenty-nine businesses, including ten tech giants, signed President Barack Obama's Equal Pay Pledge, the White House announced. In the pledge companies, including Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, are committing to take steps to address the gender pay gap. That commitment includes five points, including: acknowledging the role that business play in reducing the gap; conducting annual internal analysis on the gap; reviewing hiring and promotion practices for gender bias; conducting more “enterprise-wide equity initiatives;” and adopting other best practices to “close the national wage gap.” Other tech giants signing on include Akamai Technologies, Dropbox, IBM, Intel, LinkedIn, MailChimp, and Mulesoft.

The new signatories joined on Women’s Equality Day, a holiday commemorating both the certification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, and women’s continued pursuit of equality.