A report
by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) found that
full-time working women are paid only 77 cents for every dollar paid to
full-time working men. In median weekly earnings, women earn only $684
per week, compared with $832 per week for men.
An analysis by the National Partnership for Women found women in the United States earn $10,784 less than their male counterparts. But the wage gape is even larger for African American and Latina women, who earn $19,575 and $23,873 less than men, respectively.
“These gender wage gaps are not about women choosing to work less than men — the analysis is comparing apples to apples, men and women who all work full time — and we see that across these 40 common occupations, men nearly always earn more than women,” said Ariane Hegewisch, a Study Director at IWPR.
Almost 15 million households in the United States are headed by women, and 8.5 million of those households include children under the age of 18. Nearly 30 percent of households headed by women live below the poverty level.
In the UK, women face a national average pay gap with men of almost 15% for full-time work— in London, it is 23% and the research suggests that women are more likely to live in poverty in London – with the rate as high as 4 in 10 women from black or other ethnic minority groups.
And this after decades of anti-descrimination legislation in both nations! Reforms don't reform capitalism.
An analysis by the National Partnership for Women found women in the United States earn $10,784 less than their male counterparts. But the wage gape is even larger for African American and Latina women, who earn $19,575 and $23,873 less than men, respectively.
“These gender wage gaps are not about women choosing to work less than men — the analysis is comparing apples to apples, men and women who all work full time — and we see that across these 40 common occupations, men nearly always earn more than women,” said Ariane Hegewisch, a Study Director at IWPR.
Almost 15 million households in the United States are headed by women, and 8.5 million of those households include children under the age of 18. Nearly 30 percent of households headed by women live below the poverty level.
In the UK, women face a national average pay gap with men of almost 15% for full-time work— in London, it is 23% and the research suggests that women are more likely to live in poverty in London – with the rate as high as 4 in 10 women from black or other ethnic minority groups.
And this after decades of anti-descrimination legislation in both nations! Reforms don't reform capitalism.
1 comment:
If we were to follow Chomsky's advice, we'd hop on the reformist misery-go-round and demand equal crumbs:
http://tinyurl.com/6m5ypml
Let's not forget the ACLU either. They want women to have an equal opportunity to kill or be killed in combat:
http://tinyurl.com/cql859l
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