The Gender Pay Gap – Myth vs. Fact
In the United States, according to an estimate published by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, the wage gap will not close at this rate until 2058, which is another generation away for women of today.
issue: Economic Justice
Women Deserve Equal Pay- Very Little Progress in Closing the Gap
In the United States, full-time, year-round working women continue to be paid less than her male counterpart. Women on average are paid only 78 cents for every dollar a male employee is paid. For older women and women of color, the gap is significantly wider.
ISSUE ADVISORY: GOP Budgets Whack Social Programs, Increase DOD Funding, Provide No New Revenues
Printable PDF March 30, 2015 The Republican-led Congress this past week adopted one of the most mean-spirited and irresponsible Budget Resolutions (H. Con. Res. 27/S. Con. Res. 11) ever! The budget plan is radically right-wing with deep cuts in human needs programs, increases for the Department of Defense, and protection of favorable tax policies for Read more …
Unplanned Births: Another Outcome of Economic Inequality?
Author Gillian B. White writes for The Atlantic: “According to the study, if women who fall below the poverty line had used contraception to the same extent that wealthy women did, their birth rate from unintended pregnancies would fall to 3.4 percent. If they had abortion rates that were similar to those of wealthy women, the birth rate for the group would fall to 4.9 percent.”
Millennial Women Are Closing the Pay Gap, But Only Until They Become Moms
Author Caitlin Moscatello writes for Glamour: “Women without children in Ireland earn roughly 17 percent more than men, and childless women in Australia, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands earn slightly more than [male] workers. Those numbers drop dramatically, however, when women have kids; working moms make more than 10 percent less than men across the board.”