Herblock cared deeply about wage inequality. In 1963, when women made fifty-nine cents to every dollar that men earned, President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act. In 1998, the President’s Council of Economic Advisors reported that conditions had only increased to seventy-five cents on the dollar. In January 1999, President Clinton called upon Congress to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act and to pass legislation to improve pay parity but had no success.