The other day I happened to catch a brief blurb in the news about country singer Gretchen Wilson achieving her GED at age 34. One of the main reasons she cited for obtaining her degree, after having dropped out of school in ninth grade, was that she did not want her seven-year-old daughter to believe [...]

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Equity in the News from May 2 – May 12, 2008

Men, concentrated in the weakest sectors, are losing jobs in this downturn, while women make gains.
At least 54 more women are accusing Bloomberg L.P., the financial-services and media company founded by [New York City] Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, of discriminating against pregnant employees, a lawyer [...]

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Cooking dinner? $14 per hour
Cleaning the house? $10 per hour
Healing a scraped knee? $29 per hour
Being a stay-at-home mom? $117,000 per year (or $68,000 for working moms)
That’s the monetary compensation calculated by Salary.com, a provider of on-demand compensation software and data, in its annual Mom Salary Survey for the time spent performing the top 10 [...]

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As an AAUW member and alumna of Washington University in St. Louis, I was outraged to learn that the university is awarding Phyllis Schlafly an honorary degree at graduation. Schlafly has campaigned against the Equal Rights Amendment, gender bias laws, and Title IX. She is not just controversial; she is clearly anti-woman. For example, according [...]

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Mothers devote much of their lives to our well-being. If your mother is retired or nearing retirement, how much do you know about her financial security? Initiating a conversation on this topic may be difficult and can appear intrusive. But just as working women recognize the existence of the pay gap, women in retirement are [...]

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