The recession that started in 2001 has had one interesting effect on wages — it has resulted in a further closing of the wage gap between men and women as men’s wages held steady or declined over the past few years while women’s continued to rise.
According to the New York Times, a Bureau of […]
Somehow I missed this one, but apparently a new Congressional study was release in January that found salaries for female managers declined from 1995 to 2000 in seven of the ten industries the study surveyed. In addition, only 12 percent of corporate officers were women, although women make up 50 percent of the workforce.
But […]
Two of the more inane ideas that came out of feminism in the late 1970s and early 1980s were those of pay equity and comparable worth. Unfortunately after lying dormant for years, feminists are trying to bring both ideas back and make them part of social policies.
Maine, for example, is attempting to institute comparable […]
A recent report by British researchers examining earnings inequalities between men and women in the United Kingdom comes to much the same conclusion that similar studies of the U.S. wage gap have arrived at — women make significantly less than men, but the difference is better explained by choices women make rather than sexual […]
The latest annual salary survey by Working Women magazine pretty much confirms the trend over the last decade — on average women’s earnings are only 76.5% that of men’s, but the difference disappears when comparing men and women in the same field with similar characteristics. In fact in some fields, women earn significantly more than […]
By Elisabeth Carnell
When former U.S. Surgeon General
Jocelyn Elders visited Western Michigan University last week, she demonstrated
that so-called liberals could be just as bigoted, intolerant and misinformed
about the choices women make […]