Noreen Farrell Biography

Noreen Farrell is one of the nation’s top gender equity leaders and lawyers. She is the Executive Director of Equal Rights Advocates (ERA), a national non-profit which has led groundbreaking efforts to protect the civil rights and improve the economic security of women and girls for 40 years. Noreen has been named one of the Top Women Leaders in Law and a 2014 Legal Innovator by The Recorder. She’s also been recognized by The Daily Journal as one of the Top Employment Lawyers and Top 100 Women Lawyers in California.

Noreen has led seminal cases across the country and before the United States Supreme Court to ensure that girls thrive in safe and fair schools and that woman succeed in workplaces free of discrimination. She has worked in dozens of industries – from tech to restaurants to law to mining – to promote equal pay for equal work, family leave and the fair treatment of pregnant workers and caregivers, workplaces that are free from sexual harassment, and hiring and promotion based on merit. Noreen also leads trailblazing gender equity campaigns at the state and national levels. She is Chair of the Equal Pay Today Campaign, leading 18 of the country’s top women’s advocacy organizations working in six states and at the national level to close the gender wage gap. She also founded and chairs a state women’s economic security campaign called Stronger Calif♀rnia: Securing Economic Opportunities for Women. She leads over 30 organizations across the state in promoting policy reform to address poverty, childcare, fair pay, and other workplace fairness issues. As part of this campaign, ERA has partnered with Academy Award winner Patricia Arquette to promote passage of the California Fair Pay Act, which would be the strongest state equal pay law in the country.

Noreen lectures across the country and has published widely on civil rights matters, including most recently, Moving Women Forward on the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act: A Gender Wage Gap That Won’t Close. Noreen is a graduate of Yale University and the University of California Hastings College of the Law, where she was Editor-In-Chief of the Hastings Women’s Law Journal.

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