The Wage Gap

[kerrygoddess]

The Wage Gap
October 9th, 2005

Yesterday, I posted an OP/ED from Teresa Heinz Kerry, The Retirement Gap. Heinz Kerry noted the retirement gap between men and women. An OP/ED in today’s Boston Globe takes a deeper look at the wage gap, still looming after all these years.

Here’s a few quips:

If you are a woman working full time, you will lose between $700,000 and $2 million over your working lifetime — just because of your sex. Is that fair? No. Can it be stopped? Absolutely.

In 1964, when Congress passed the Civil Rights Act that banned workplace discrimination based on race or sex, women working full time made 59 cents to a full-time working man’s dollar. That made sense at the time: As a group, women had less education, less experience, and less opportunity, in part because they were flatly banned from a wide range of occupations. At the time, many people thought the wage gap would close on its own, as the education, experience, and opportunity gaps went away.

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[Tsiyu]

1. Kick

I want my two million, dammit!

:kick:

[Erika]

2. Excellent article

Bushbots do not admit to discrimination, gender or race. They are too busy defending the rich based on their hopes to become the rich.

Mrs. Kerry would have made a fantastic first lady.

[Erika]

3. Excellent article

Bushbots do not admit to discrimination, gender or race. They are too busy defending the rich based on their hopes to become the rich.

Mrs. Kerry would have made a fantastic first lady.

[Erika]

4. Excellent article

Bushbots do not admit to discrimination, gender or race. They are too busy defending the rich based on their hopes to become the rich.

Mrs. Kerry would have made a fantastic first lady.

[Erika]

5. Uh, how did the triple post happen?

Please delete two of them. Are hanges to the site being made?

[napi21]

6. There's a lot of sex discrimination in America!

Check out how much it is to take a men's shirt to the laundry v/s a womans shirt.

How about the difference between buying a pair of mens trousers, jeans or slacks? They are sized by waist and length measurements. Womens slacks/pants are sized in some crazy way that differs by brand! You think that's not a form of discrimination?

There's still discrimination in the workplace. Oh, you won't hear the words out in the open, but I worked 40+ years in Corp America. I lived through the 60's. It's better now, but it's sure not gone by any streatch!

[wisteria]

7. The wage issue is so very important. It's about time it 's given

some light. This is actually a family issue. Pay discrimination against women affects two paycheck households as well as single parent households. If the gap hasn't been closed after all these years it won't be unless we give it a little push. I'm happy you posted this. Thanks.