As AAUW’s Lisa Maatz mentioned earlier this week, Betty Dukes, the lead plaintiff in the discrimination case against Wal-Mart, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, June 29. The hearing, entitled Barriers to Justice and Accountability: How the Supreme Court’s Recent Rulings Will Affect Corporate Behavior, examined recent Supreme Court decisions in Wal-Mart v. Dukes [...]
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An Insult to Hardworking Career Mothers
Posted in Equity in the News, Women and Work, tagged career, gender equity, Motherhood Penalty, research, wage gap, Women and Work, work/life balance, working mothers, workplace discrimination on June 22, 2009, | 1 Comment »
To me the most striking finding from a recent work-family research report that’s getting a lot of online buzz was that the wage gap between mothers and non-mothers is even more pronounced than the wage gap between women and men. Even though I decided early on that I didn’t want to have kids, that doesn’t [...]
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