On average, women make just 79 cents for every dollar a man makes. Part of is discrimination in the workplace, how we view women, said women’s activist, Bettina Altizer.
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In Florida, the current average for female earners is 85 cents to every dollar a man makes. And CEO Marc Benioff told CNN’s Poppy Harlow a year ago that he would look to hire enough women so that the company has an equal number of women and men.
Candidate Hillary Clinton kicks off a panel discussion on the wage gap between men and women workers. The disclosure – that came on the “Equal Pay Day” on Tuesday – was announced after both the companies were pressed by Arjuna Capital, a Boston-based investment firm.
In 1963, Congress passed the Equal Pay Act, making it illegal for employers to pay a woman less than what a man would receive for the same job.
Unfortunately Change the Story Vermont and other state wide organizations, released a new report showing men and women’s wages are far from equal.
But however you choose to approach it, the gender pay gap still exists. In almost 20 percent of Washington families with children, including single-parent households, a woman is the family’s sole provider, according to 2014 Census bureau data.
“I think that men could do a lot to help just by treating women equally in the workforce”, said Becca Bergman, 23, who worked on the survey through a program with the University of Rochester. WBNG reported that women between the ages of 18 and 24 years make 88 percent of what a man does, while those of age 35 and above make about 76 percent of their gender counterpart.
“.we’ve known about this problem for fifty years”, said Trial Lawyer Kathleen Neary. During her time on the Australia women’s national team previous year, Williams and her teammates stuck together to fight for higher salaries.
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“I worked very hard to make difficult situations into learning experiences and my family can attest”, says Desiree. More experienced women expected to get paid less. Across industries and education levels, women are paid less for doing the same work.Obama said women’s rights protestors picketed in front of the White House daily to demand the ballot, even as they were mocked, arrested and beaten.
