AAUW applauds the White House’s release of a progress report detailing the activities of the president’s Equal Pay Task Force. The report was released along with a presidential proclamation to mark April 17 as Equal Pay Day, the day women’s earnings finally catch up to what men made last year. The task force was created [...]
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Confessions of a $tart $mart Facilitator
Posted in Educational Programs, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, tagged $tart $mart, AAUW, Colorado Springs, education, Equal Pay, equal pay day, leadership, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Metropolitan State College of Denver, pay equity, politics, University of Denver, WAGE Project, Women's Foundation of Colorado on April 5, 2012, | 1 Comment »
It’s the $tart $mart salary negotiation workshop attendees’ “aha!” moments that keep me coming back as a facilitator. “I never knew that I could look up a job’s worth on the web!” “I always thought that negotiation was a battle of wills that I could not win. I’m surprised to learn that it can be [...]
Ridiculous and True: Gender Pay Gap Unchanged for over a Decade
Posted in Equity in the News, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, tagged AAUW, April 17, Behind the Pay Gap, Equal Pay, equal pay day, pay equity, wage gap, Washington D.C. on April 3, 2012, | 1 Comment »
Despite recent stories about how women are poised to out-earn men in coming generations, the stark reality is that worldwide, women still make an average of 18 percent less than their male counterparts at work. Messed up, right? Despite a narrowing of the wage gap in the United States from the 1960s to the 1990s, [...]
How the Pill Changed Women’s Wages
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women's Health, tagged AAUW, birth control, Equal Pay, equal pay day, pay equity, pay gap, politics, Rush Limbaugh on April 2, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
With Equal Pay Day on April 17 just two weeks away, I am struggling to wrap my head around the fact that in 2012, women’s earnings still are not on par with men’s — even though women make up more than half of U.S. college graduates and nearly half of those graduating from law, medical, [...]
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