For working families, equal pay for equal work would put an average of $4,000 a year back into their pocketbooks, nearly three times more than the proposed $1.3 trillion tax cut, claims the Center for Policy Alternatives.
A new study says the 1996 welfare law resulted in heads of currently poor families, more than 80 percent of them female, becoming more vulnerable to sex harassment, race or ethnic bias and arbitrary decisions in state-run programs with few rules.
Like their brethren, women workers in the Internet economy are making the big bucks and working the long hours. Yet, they are making roughly 25 percent less while working only slightly fewer hours. Ring a bell?
The community where a woman lives affects virtually all aspects of her health and well-being. A national “Report Card” analyzed state efforts in economic security, education, discrimination, gun control and the environment. Last in a series.
Women’s Enews is covering the tight races in which women are still challengers and is providing a breakdown of the gender gap in this election. Watch this space for further updates.
The real gender gap is between women’s often-stated concerns about pay equity, health, education and gun control–and candidates’ hollow rhetoric. Women’s number one issue is economic parity. From the Presidential candidates: silence.
In the current labor market, some employers are taking steps to promote good will toward gay, lesbian and transgendered employees. However, with no federal and few state anti-bias laws, the programs could last only as long as the current boom.
In the best of times, women still don’t fare as well financially as men, not by a long shot–and this hot economy proves it. True, women’s wages have risen during the past two years, but they have only recovered ground lost in the past 20.
Prepare to weep and smile. This week, Women’s Enews will host commentaries from brilliant writers on Beijing + Five, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, the war crimes trials at The Hague and the Republican and Democratic national conventions.
Paid parental leave has been the stuff of progressive dreams. Now, the thinking, researching and concrete planning are underway. Minnesota is one innovative planner and Massachusetts could enact a plan this year.
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