Robert Reich: Working Mother’s Day

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In 1966, only 20 percent of mothers with young children worked outside the home. By the late 1990s, 60 percent. For married women with children under age 6, the transformation was even more dramatic: from 12 percent in the 1960s to 55 percent by the late 1990s.

Yet America hasn’t accommodated this shift.

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Nor do we require equal pay for equal work (women’s pay still lags behind male pay for the same job).

Nor, like most rich nations, do we provide universal child care.

More women workers are in minimum-wage jobs than men, yet our minimum wage hasn’t kept up. (If it had kept up with inflation since 1968 it would be over $10 today.) ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://robertreich.org/post/50258015428

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