This is the second post in a five-part series about the Paycheck Fairness Act. On July 4, 1776, America declared independence from England. We were to be a new nation, built on the bonds of equality. On October 1, 2010, the United Kingdom gained its own claim to that title. Recognizing that the march toward [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Lilly Ledbetter’
Just How Big Is It?
Posted in Sex Discrimination, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged gender stereotyping, Lilly Ledbetter, Pay Check Fairness Act, Pay Discrminiation, Student Advisory Council on May 28, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
Lilly Ledbetter, who faced gender pay discrimination while working for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, thought pay inequity was a problem unique to the South. She soon learned, however, that the gender pay gap exists across the nation. For anyone who doubts this, the current Wal-Mart pay discrimination case illustrates just how big and widespread [...]
Equal Pay Day 2010 — A Round Up
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, tagged Chris Dodd, equal pay day, Lilly Ledbetter, Marking Equal Pay Day, Paycheck Fairness Act, unequal pay, wage gap on April 22, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
Equal Pay Day — the symbolic point at which a woman’s salary finally catches up to a man’s earnings from the previous year — is a 24-hour observance. However, at AAUW, the issue of pay equity remains an evergreen one as women continue to earn 77 cents on the dollar, on average, compared with men [...]
Marking Equal Pay Day
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Blog for Fair Pay, EPD, Equal Pay, Equal Pay Act of 1963, equal pay day, In the Red, Lilly Ledbetter, Paycheck Faierness Act, Paycheck Fairness on April 20, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
AAUW members and pay equity advocates all across the country are marking Equal Pay Day today. Marking the day, not celebrating the day. We will celebrate when we no longer need Equal Pay Day, when pay discrimination and the wage gap are things of the past, when women’s wages are finally equal to men’s. Until [...]
Is the Women’s Movement Relevant Today?
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged equal pay day, Lilly Ledbetter, paycheck fairlness act, Paycheck Fairness Act, SAC, Student Advisory Council on April 9, 2010, | 1 Comment »
There are many signs of change around us that are a result of the women’s movement. For example, women have achieved prominent positions in government and in academia. In Congress there are a record number of women: 16 women in the Senate and 76 women in the House of Representatives. Yet women in Congress comprise [...]
Work-Life Balance: More Than a Philosophy
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged AAUW, blog carnival, Equal Pay, fem2, Fem2.0, Huffington Post, Lilly Ledbetter, More Magazine, More.com, paid sick leave, pay equity, Paycheck Fairness Act, work-life, work/life, work/life balance on March 18, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
Women now make up half of the U.S. workforce, yet policies such as flexible scheduling that help women juggle work-life responsibilities are not prioritized by our lawmakers. This is a problem when more and more women not only have caregiving responsibilities but also serve as primary breadwinners. As part of the Fem2.0 work-life blog carnival, [...]
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