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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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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Posted in Sex Discrimination, Women and Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Bloomberg LP, jobs, Legal Advocacy Fund, maternity leave, motherhood, pregnancy, pregnancy discrimination, reproductive rights on May 7, 2008, | No Comments »
When my grandmother became pregnant with my mother, her first child, she was fired from her job. My grandfather was still in college and they had no other income, so they scrimped and borrowed from relatives to get by. After my mother was born, my grandmother looked for a new job because she had been [...]
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Posted in Sex Discrimination, Voter Education, Women and Work, tagged Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential election, Sexism, Voting record, White House on April 28, 2008, | 9 Comments »
Wish I had that proverbial crystal ball, so I could find out which woman will be the first to actually run the White House, not just be there as support staff. Is Hillary the one? When I started my own unofficial straw poll, the pro or con reactions to Senator Clinton were instant and intense; [...]
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Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, The AAUW Community, Women and Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged career, equal pay day, gender pay gap, jobs, legislation, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, pay equity, politics, Public Policy, unhappy hour, womens rights, work on April 22, 2008, | 6 Comments »
As you know, Tuesday, April 22, is Equal Pay Day, the annual symbolic day on which women’s average wages catch up to men’s from the previous year. For the average woman’s salary to equal that of a man’s in 2007, she would have had to work from Jan. 1, 2007, until April 22, 2008. See [...]
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