The Senate will vote tomorrow, November 17, 2010 on the Paycheck Fairness Act. Many senators have yet to decide which way to vote, or are simply not making their positions public. The Paycheck Fairness act has passed the House, but to become law, it must also be passed by the Senate.
Women are now the primary earners in four out of every ten households in the United States. Women who work full-time still earn on average 23 cents less per hour than men performing the same jobs. Minority women earn even less. According to MomsRising.org, ..."the wage gap for women of color in 2009 was even more staggering than for women overall. When Black and Hispanic women work full-time, year round, they only make 62 and 53 cents, respectively, for every dollar their white, non-Hispanic male counterparts earn. Further, a recent study found that with equal resumes and job experiences, mothers were offered $11,000 lower starting salaries than non-mothers (fathers, on the other hand, were offered $6,000 more in starting salaries than non-fathers). Since over 80% of women in our nation have children by the time they're 44 years old, the majority of women in our nation are touched by this type of wage discrimination at some point in their lives."
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“Women who work full-time still earn on average 23 cents less per hour than men performing the same jobs.”
Well that’s a pretty blatant lie.
Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. If you have a source of information, please post a link. It would be encouraging news for all women if the tide was turning.
“According to General Accountability Office (GAO) Report GAO-04-35, the weekly earnings of full-time working women were about three-fourths of men’s during 2001. The report was prepared from a study of the earnings history of over 9,300 Americans for the last 18 years.” Excerpt from “Why Women Still Make Less Than Men.”
The report (submitted in 2001) was prepared at the request of Congress and clearly shows women are in fact paid less than men. And, white men who have children are paid higher than any other demographics.
In a more recent report (2009) statistics show that women are still earning less for working the same jobs nearly 10 years after the first report was published.