I'd actually call that a worker's rights improvement as a whole though. It gives power to any employee who have been discriminated against and doesn't actually seem to have anything to do with equal pay for women, which again.. passed in the early sixties, even if it helps bring a suit in those cases.

I mean.. the wage gap isn't even a thing. Yeah, if you take literally all women and literally all men, then average the earnings of all men and the earnings of all women, you find a wage gap, but you divorce it of all context by doing that. A ton of research has shown over and over again that said gap all comes down to personal choices. Women just don't choose the high paying dangerous jobs men do.. They absolutely can become oil rig workers if they really wanted, but it seems the average woman would prefer to take a job that is fulfilling or enjoyable over a job that makes bank but requires you work in literally hellish conditions.

When you instead compare each job to each job and factor for experience, the gap comes down to pennies and might just be something as simple as women choosing, again.. on average, to take more time off or work less hours. The equal pay act absolutely worked.. and this current thing has nothing to do with that as actual discrimination via wage appears to be extremely rare. Other kinds of discrimination are way more common currently and I personally see that law as helping fix those issues primarily. Sure, maybe public support was garnered to try and close a non-existent wage gap and that's why the law was passed, but you can't say that in reality that's what the law actually did.

Now, I'm not saying the law isn't a good thing or that it wasn't a vitory.. I'm just saying it wasn't a victory specifically for equal pay for women.. because it almost certainly has had no practical effect in that regard. It couldn't have.. the wage gap, as perceived by most people, would have to exist as people perceive it first.