When women join unions they are not paid less due to their gender and they will be able to enjoy a more secure retirement.
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“Today, for every $1 earned by men, our female employees in the US earn 99.8 cents at the same job title and level”, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President of human resources Kathleen Hogan wrote in a Thursday blog post in honor of Equal Pay Day, a public awareness event meant to illustrate the gap between men’s and women’s wages.
Additionally, it is important to note the pay gap widens if you’re a woman and a racial minority.
Warren argued that despite the robust economic growth of the last few years, there has been little progress for women who face discrimination in the workplace.
Currently, about one fourth of the Massachusetts Legislature is made up of women.
Clearly, then, the widely-cited 78 cents to the dollar statistic falls far short of painting the whole picture of the wage pay gap.
If the wage gap was eliminated in Florida, on average, a working woman would have enough money for approximately a year’s worth more food for her family and either five more months of mortgage payments or more than six months of additional rent payments.
Some have said that women get paid less in part because they don’t negotiate their salaries as often or as aggressively as men. I know that you’ve been a strong advocate.
Among the bills drafted, Lawmakers hope for both penalties for work places who discriminate or pay unequally, and rewards for those who uphold equal pay. The 79 cents claim assumes that women in the U.
“There needs to be more discussion, more than just on equal pay day”, Devine said. But the reasons why women work fewer hours and lower-paying jobs often lead back to unequal caregiving responsibilities and gendered socialization that funnels women into certain career paths.
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Shari Chatterton, director of the Women’s Business Center of Idaho, said Idaho’s 2015 “Status of Women in Business” report had some pretty grim numbers as well.
