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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-19-05 11:18 AM
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Today is Equal Pay Day
Edited on Tue Apr-19-05 11:20 AM by redqueen
http://www.pay-equity.org/day.html

Equal Pay Day

Each year, the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) organizes the national observance of Equal Pay Day to raise awareness about unfair pay for women and people of color in America. In 2004, Equal Pay Day was on Tuesday, April 20. Equal Pay Day is observed in April to indicate how far into each year a woman must work to earn as much as a man earned in the previous year. Tuesday symbolizes the day when women's wages catch up to men's wages from the previous week. Because women on average earn less, they must work longer for the same pay. For women of color, the wage gap is greater, as shown in our fact sheet.


The wage gap is widening... we need to keep talking about this. Most single-parent households are headed by women!


The gap between median earnings of full-time, year-round workers widened last year, with women's earnings 76% of men's, down from 77% in 2002. Women's earnings were $30,724, compared to $40,668 for men. The last time the female-to-male earnings ratio declined was 1998-99 (see table, "The Wage Gap over Time").

Median earnings for women of color continue to be lower, in general, than earnings for men as a whole. In 2003, the earnings for African American women were $26,989, 66% of men's earnings (down from 68% last year); Latinas at $22,363, 55% of men's earnings (down from 56% last year); and Asian American women at $32,446, 80% of men's earnings (wage gap remained the same).



I posted this in GD, where it got one response... and some people wonder why we're still stuck on so many women's issues.
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-19-05 11:20 AM
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1. Hell of a country we live in, ain't it?
:banghead:
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-19-05 11:41 AM
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2. Yeah.
I want us to be more like the Neths wrt women's rights. I think. I need to do more research.
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LisaLynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 10:22 PM
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3. This is a major issue!
Thanks for posting about it. We need to do something about this. I was at a (of all things) Women's Studies seminar and there were all these young women who said they didn't want careers and they didn't want to work. Well, it's more than just having a job, you know? It's more than just about the fulfillment of working. Money in our society brings about a lot of other things and being able to earn money is essential to a lot of things -- political power among them.
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