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Wal-mart and the Supreme Court: Can the SCOTUS Women Help Achieve Fair Pay?

May 18, 2011
A couple of months ago, I wondered what would happen for about 1.5 million women when the Supreme Court got its hands on the class-action, gender-discrimination lawsuit against corporate giant Wal-Mart. That's the approximate number of plaintiffs in the case who have alleged they've been victims of...
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Empowering America's Women

May 8, 2011
As we celebrate Mother's Day today, we pay tribute to our extraordinary mothers, grandmothers, daughters, and sisters who are a beacon of strength in our families, our communities, and our nation, particularly in these difficult economic times. And that means we must pledge, now more than ever, to...
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Research Roundup from the Institute for Women's Policy Research: Mother's Day Edition

May 6, 2011
In time for Mother's Day, the Institute for Women's Policy Research, a leading think tank in the U.S. focusing primarily on domestic women’s issues, released a compilation of recent IWPR research findings that illustrate the current status of women, especially mothers, in the U.S. When IWPR posted...
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PFAW urges you to contact Congress for Equal Pay

April 13, 2011
Equal pay in America needed to be put back on track after the devastating Ledbetter ruling, and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act answered that call – but it wasn’t the last word. The Paycheck Fairness Act would move us even further forward by providing the tools necessary to enforce equity in the...

Where's My 20?

April 12, 2011
As the economy of the United States slowly recovers, one faction of the population is still struggling for wage equality – women. The American workforce today is more female and more diverse. Women account for nearly half of our nation’s workers. Yet, women on average still earn 20% less than their...

I'm reintroducing the Paycheck Fairness Act today

April 12, 2011
In America today, women now make up half of the workforce, and two-thirds of women are either the sole bread-winner or co-breadwinner in their family. Women are also more likely than men to graduate from college. They run more than 10 million businesses with combined annual sales of $1.1 trillion,...

Don't shortchange our moms, daughters and families! A Blog-a-thon for Fair Pay Day

April 12, 2011
Today - Tuesday, April 12 - is Equal Pay Day. The day that symbolizes how far into 2011 women have had to work to earn what men earned in 2010 - for the same work. That’s right. We’re four months into 2011 and women have *just* caught up to earning what men earned in 2010 for the same work ...
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A Woman's Work on Pay Equity is Never Done

April 12, 2011
Photo by Ian Bratton at Freefoto.com A divorced janitor, a 27-year employee and the mother of a seventeen-year old son with the mental capacity of an 18-month old, fails to report for mandatory overtime one Saturday when her son’s caregiver could not work because of a sick child. She calls twice...
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Feeling Poor? Protest!

April 12, 2011
April 12 is Equal Pay Day. Chicago women will gather at noon at Daley Plaza! Pay equity is the thorn in corporate America’s side. Every company claims it pays equitably. No employer thinks that it contributes to the 19.8-cents-on-the-dollar pay gap. Yet the evidence keeps piling up. A long-...

Personal Reflections on Wage Inequality

April 12, 2011
I was a professional recruiter when I was pregnant with my first child in 2001. Two weeks into my maternity leave my job was eliminated, leaving this new mom without the full-time income that my husband and I had planned on. The day after I was laid off was September 11, the day of the domestic...
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