Realistic & Fair Wages

April 12, 2011

As we continue to mourn the passing of Geraldine Ferraro, and honor her extraordinary life, women today must not forget the words she spoke in her 1984 convention speech, “The issue is not what America can do for women, but what women can do for America.” These words should serve as a clarion call...

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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

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April 12, 2011

As a United States Senator, I’m fighting for jobs today and jobs tomorrow. I am on the side of a fair economy, and I am on the side of good guy and gal businesses. We need an economy that works for everyone, and works for the American family. But that means equal pay for equal work, and that is...

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Senator Barbara Mikulski

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April 12, 2011

Women have made significant gains in the workplace in recent decades, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at their paychecks. For every dollar paid to men in the United States, women earn just about 75 cents. The gap is even wider for female minorities. This disparity, which affects women at all...

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Senator Frank Lautenberg

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April 12, 2011

As a growing segment of America’s workforce, women now hold nearly half of today’s jobs. Their earnings account for a significant portion of the household income that sustains the financial well-being of their families. Almost 50 years after enactment of the Equal Pay Act, equal pay for equal work...

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Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis

Realistic & Fair Wages

April 12, 2011

Today is Equal Pay Day , which symbolizes how many weeks into 2011 women must work simply to match what men made in 2010. It’s a stunning pay gap, but there’s a growing class of workers whose conditions are even more outrageous: part-timers. The great recession has forced millions of full-time...

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Ann Crittenden

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April 12, 2011

Just to show you how important it is to have women in leadership positions, including the U.S. Supreme Court, the court appears to be divided among gender lines in the Dukes v. Wal-Mart sex discrimination case. From the Los Angeles Times : “Led by Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Antonin Scalia, the...

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Elisa Batista

Realistic & Fair Wages Blog Carnivals

April 12, 2011

On April 12, 2011, the nation observes Equal Pay Day to symbolize that women have to work a year plus more than three months to equal what men make in just one year, on average. This past year women were paid 77 cents for every dollar paid to men in the U.S. For women of color, the gap is even...

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Linda Meric

Realistic & Fair Wages Family Economic Security

April 11, 2011

“Women will never make as much money as men…God made Adam first, and so women would always be second to men.” "If you would wear lower cut shirts...., you would probably get more pay.” [1] These are just two of many, many horribly sexist comments that Wal-Mart managers said to female employees...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Realistic & Fair Wages Family Economic Security

March 29, 2011

Written with Ariane Hegewisch , Study Director at the Institute for Women's Policy Research. The Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday to decide whether the lower courts rightly certified the women at Wal-Mart as a class. Wal-Mart’s own salary data shows that on average women earn $1,100 per...

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Clark Jennifer

Realistic & Fair Wages

March 23, 2011

In an attempt to bring more original and interactive content to you, I am hosting a live blog chat at MotherTalkers this Friday at 9 a.m. PT/ 12 p.m. ET. We will be chatting with Arcelia Hurtado, executive director of Equal Rights Advocates , an advocacy organization for women and girls. For over a...

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Elisa Batista