March 9 - New Mexico's Gender Pay Equity Laws Are Strong, As Long As We Use Them

March is Women’s history month and we’ll be looking at important new mexico women and issues throughout. As we heard yesterday in our interview with New Mexico Women dot org, the theme of this year’s International Women’s day event is equal pay for women. One of the organizations working toward pay equity for women in our state is the Southwest Women’s Law Center. I spoke with executive director Pamelya Herndon, the to find out how they passed a fair pay act for women in the New Mexico legislature.