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Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is all the evidence of systemic racism and sexism you need

Leave a Comment / equal pay / By max cyril

Black Women’s Equal Pay Day falls on August 3 this year. That’s the day when, starting on January 1, 2020, Black women have finally been paid what white men were paid in 2020 alone. Equal Pay Day, the day observing this marker for women overall in the U.S., fell on March 24 this year. Latina Equal Pay Day won’t …

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‘A tale of 2 recessions’: As rich Americans get richer, the bottom half struggles

Leave a Comment / benefits, economy, equal pay, SmallBusiness, unemployment, wealth / By max cyril

The path toward economic recovery in the U.S. has become sharply divided, with wealthier Americans earning and saving at record levels while the poorest struggle to pay their bills and put food on the table. The result is a splintered economic picture characterized by high highs — the stock market has hit record levels — …

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187 Republicans vote against bill to close the gender wage gap

Leave a Comment / equal pay / By max cyril

The House on Wednesday voted 242-187 for a bill that would strengthen protections for female workers and help close the gender wage gap. The vote comes as Republicans are trumpeting themselves as the champions of women’s economic mobility — though only seven of them voted for the bill. Iterations of this legislation have been debated …

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Equal Pay for All

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Today is Latina Equal Pay Day, the day in the year when Latina pay catches up to that of white, non-Hispanic men. That means Latinas work nearly 23 months to make what white, non-Hispanic men earn in one year. More than 50 years after the passage of the Equal Pay Act, women still get paid …

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Trump blocks Obama effort to combat pay discrimination

Leave a Comment / equal pay / By max cyril

Former President Obama intended to fight pay discrimination with a rule requiring businesses to track how much they pay different groups of workers. You know the next part, right? Of course you do. Donald Trump is blocking the rule from going into effect as scheduled next spring because it’s just too hard for businesses to report how …

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Together We Can Make Pay Equity a Reality for All Working Women

Leave a Comment / equal pay / By max cyril

June 10th is the 54th anniversary of the passage of the Equal Pay Act, the 1963 law that prohibits employers from paying men and women different wages for the same work solely based on sex. The Equal Pay Act’s passage is an important example of the labor movement’s long history of partnering with progressive women’s …

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An Economy That Works For Everyone Starts With Women

Leave a Comment / discrimination / By max cyril

According to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute, creating an economy that works for everyone starts with creating an economy that works for women. There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that the gap between women’s earnings and men’s earnings has closed a little. The bad news is the narrowing …

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Female Executives Aren’t Just Paid Less, They Also Suffer More For Bad Performance

Leave a Comment / Income inequality, women's issues / By max cyril

There isn’t just a gender wage gap among the highest-paid employees in the country. Pay for female executives also drops further when companies perform poorly compared to men but rises less during good times. In a new note about their research, Federal Reserve Bank of New York economists Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti, and Maria Prados find …

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Few nurses are men, but they’re still paid more than women

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Nursing is an occupation massively dominated by women. But the small fraction of nurses who are men earn substantially more than the women, according to an analysis of two large data sets: Every year, each of the data sets found men earned more than women; the unadjusted pay gap ranged from $10,243 to $11,306 in …

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Unless Something Changes, it Will Take Women 45 Years to Earn as Much as Men

Leave a Comment / women's issues / By max cyril

Women will not receive the same median annual pay as men until 2058, if current earnings patterns continue without change, announced the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) this week. “Progress in closing the gender wage gap has stalled during the most recent decade. The wage gap is still at the same level as it was …

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Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is all the evidence of systemic racism and sexism you need

‘A tale of 2 recessions’: As rich Americans get richer, the bottom half struggles

187 Republicans vote against bill to close the gender wage gap

Equal Pay for All

Trump blocks Obama effort to combat pay discrimination

Together We Can Make Pay Equity a Reality for All Working Women

An Economy That Works For Everyone Starts With Women

Female Executives Aren’t Just Paid Less, They Also Suffer More For Bad Performance

Few nurses are men, but they’re still paid more than women

Unless Something Changes, it Will Take Women 45 Years to Earn as Much as Men

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