I used to date a guy who always assumed the jerk driving in front of him was a woman. It didn’t seem to matter whether he knew it actually was a woman or not. He would simply say in a disgusted tone, “Women drivers!” and shake his head. He’s not alone. I did a search [...]
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Women Drivers
Posted in Sexism, tagged driving, pay equity on April 25, 2011, | 3 Comments »
New York Women Learn Salary Negotiation
Posted in Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, tagged $tart $mart, AAUW branches, AAUW members, gender wage gap, pay equity on April 21, 2011, | 1 Comment »
Last month, 33 Westchester Community College women participated in two $tart $mart workshops to learn concrete, pragmatic pay negotiation skills to help them avoid the still-prevalent gender pay gap. Women currently earn only 77 cents, on average, for every dollar that men earn. That translates to a lifetime pay gap of $1 million for college [...]
Money Talks: NC Students Negotiate Their Worth
Posted in Educational Programs, Sex Discrimination, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged $tart $mart, Equal Pay, National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, North Carolina, pay equity, University of North Carolina Wilmington, wage gap on December 7, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
As a recent college graduate, I have to admit that in the months leading up to and following graduation, I wasn’t as concerned about whether I would receive fair pay as I was about whether I would find a job. Thankfully, I have strong, intelligent women in my life who offered me advice on selling [...]
Fighting the (Port) Authority
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Women and Work, tagged Equal Pay Act, pay equity, pay gap, Paycheck Fairness Act, wage gap on December 2, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey that accused the Port Authority of pay discrimination against its female employees. The Port Authority, a two-state agency that runs several of the largest transportation hubs in the Northeast, is accused of [...]
Join Batgirl in the Fight for Paycheck Fairness
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, The AAUW Community, Voter Education, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, tagged batgirl, Center for American Progress, pay equity, Paycheck Fairness Act, Senate on November 15, 2010, | 1 Comment »
With a Senate vote just days away, the Paycheck Fairness Act’s moment of truth is almost here. Instead of holding our collective breath, the American Association of University Women has shifted into fifth gear to do everything possible to amplify the voices of all the unfairly paid wage-earning women —moms, single ladies, managers, workers, CEOs, old, young, you name them. We’ve had a tremendous amount of help from our friends, including [...]
Giving Men the Gift of Pay Equity
Posted in A Women's Nation, Women & Economic Security, tagged $10622, A Woman's Nation, Father's Day, pay equity on June 14, 2010, | 1 Comment »
Yes, you read that correctly. A couple of weeks before my bar mitzvah, my parents and I went to our rabbi’s home to discuss the big day. One of the honors for the bar mitzvah boy is that members of his family can get called up to read certain prayers during the service, so we [...]
Still Fighting, 47 Years Later
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Equal Pay Act of 1963, equal pay day, John F. Kennedy, pay equity, Paycheck Fairness Act, websticker on June 10, 2010, | 1 Comment »
On this day in 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, giving women the promise of equal pay for equal work. And yet today, 47 years later, woman still get paid only 77 cents on average for every dollar a man makes; women of color still face an even wider [...]
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