Equal Pay Day: Women Still Paid Less than Men

[Omaha Steve]

http://unionreview.com/equal-pay-day-women-still-paid-less-men

by James Parks, Apr 12, 2011

Today is Equal Pay Day–the date that symbolizes how far into 2011 women must work to earn what men earned in 2010.

Nearly 50 years after enactment of the Equal Pay Act, working women in the United States are paid an average of 80 cents for every dollar paid to men. The pay gap is even larger for women of color, with black women earning about 70 cents, and Latinas about 60 cents, of every dollar paid to all men.

U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said in a statement marking Equal Pay Day:

When women start at a disadvantage, they stay at a disadvantage. Every time a woman starts a new job or tries to negotiate for a pay raise, she is starting from a lower base salary. So, the pay gap grows wider and wider over time.

The Labor Department reports the pay gap for the average, full-time working woman means she gets $150 less in her weekly paycheck. If she works all year, that’s $8,000 less at the end of the year and approximately $380,000 over a lifetime.

The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) yesterday released a new fact sheet on the gender wage gap that shows women have lower median earnings than men in 107 out of 111 occupations, regardless of levels of education.

FULL story at link.

[GKirk]

1. Is there a particular industry

that does this more than others?