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Employers can be expected to lowball women on starting pay, says a salary negotiator. That begins a wage gap for the college-educated that widens over time and leaves a woman accumulating a $1 million deficit. Third story in the Bias Price series.
A month of far-flung 24-hour hunger fasts culminated on Capitol Hill April 8 with about 100 women trying to “feed courage” to lawmakers who continue to stall on actions that advocates say many women, in particular, need desperately.
The workshops get young women who face their first jobs to think seriously about salaries. The big-picture focus is on narrowing a gender wage gap that last year left U.S. women–statistically speaking–working until April 8 of this year, Equal Pay Day, to catch up with men.
As the museum moves forward, after many years of legislative effort, it has also picked up criticism from scholars in an advisory body that recently parted ways with the project.
Female-focused events are erupting around March 8. African women are digging into land rights, safety activists are planning another Million Women Rise march in London and the Twitter hashtag #IWD2014 is booming.