i was all about the greening of the blog during earth day[s] last week. now i need to turn our attention back to another sort of vital green.cha-ching.
tuesday, april 20th, marked how far into 2010 american women must work from january 1, 2009, to match what men earned last year.
no, no typos. for what a guy earned working from 1.1.2009 to 12.31.2009, a gal had to work an extra 110 days [78 weekdays] to earn the same.
o.m.g. i'm sorry － what year is this?
2010 － and women are still earning only 77 cents for every male dollar.
the harvard business review put together this eye-opening [potentially to the point of tears] presentation of some of the pay-gap facts, such as they are ... i dare you to not be righteously rageful [click the image to go to the rest of the presentation]:
sux, yes?
the lilly ledbetter fair pay restoration act was the first bill president obama signed into law. it doesn't seem to have done much yet, but obama says he's not done with pay parity yet.
the president is cracking down on pay inequity and backing the paycheck fairness act. the measure will make it okay to talk about pay in the workplace, make it easier to prove sex discrimination, and make penalties harsher for companies who underpay women employees.
go-bama. american women don't have 110 days to spare.
1 comment:
Yeah, no kidding! We're so busy doing all the other work that the men don't do...
Sorry, didn't mean to sound bitter. But the equal-pay issue doesn't even touch the division-of-labor issue. Sigh.
Still, you gotta admit, we've come a long way, baby! (Too bad we don't smoke anymore!)
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