Women and men were to be paid the same wages for the same amount of work. Address the following: • What events led to President Kennedy’s passage of the EPA of 1963? • What protections did the passage of this act ensure? • Did President Kennedy’s administration receive any resistance to the passage of this act? • Identify two professions in which men and women produce the same results and still encounter wage disparity. • Fifty-five years after the passage of this act what has been the lasting impact?