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Would you accept this offer?
Oz Conservative —
Authority: 411
Heres an amazing story from England. The issue of equal pay has moved to another phase. Its no longer enough to have equal pay for the same work. The demand now is for an overall equal outcome: the system is to be rejigged so that women end up earning as much as men. This has led to an extraordinary situation in ...6 days ago -
Not a penny off the pay! Not a minute on the day!
Jon's union blog —
Authority: 470
As I mentioned last week one of the stewards involved in the Leeds strike has been in London this week. Glenn - the steward in question - has done three consecutive evenings of speaking at meetings about the dispute and has inspired and motivated a number of London trade unionists. We need to get delegations of ...6 days ago -
You are Not a Pre-Existing Condition
feminist blogs —
Authority: 161
Do you know who may be denied health insurance? * Me. I had a Cesarean section. C-sections are pre-existing conditions. * A good friend of mine. Her husband hit her. Domestic violence is a pre-existing condition. *The one in six women who will be sexually assaulted. Rape is a pre-existing condition . *Another ...6 days ago -
The Quest for Work-Life Balance
AAUW Dialog —
Authority: 495
I started writing a blog two weeks ago about a chapter in The Shriver Report—A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything called “Sick and Tired.” The chapter outlines some of the troubles women have finding health care, receiving health care, and caring for others. I began to write about the women who worked as ...6 days ago -
Gender GAP
39thandbroadway.com —
Authority: 521
Flickr image via robincd123 We all hear a lot about the exploitation of women in fashion. From young models to factory workers, a woman’s role in fashion is often a tenuous one. So we were thrilled, to come across a story of a big brand doing something to help women in third world countries who work to produce ...1 week ago -
14:20- Another survey that shows women are disadvantaged in the workplace and getting a raw deal... (audio)
Collectors —
Authority: 812
Shon Walker gets the details from Dr Lyndall Strazdins1 week ago -
Equal Pay in the UK? Not yet!
Aristotle's Feminist Subject —
Authority: 467
April 28th was Equal Pay Day in the USA . At that point, women here, on average, earned just 78 pennies to each Dollar men here, on average, made. Given that a man and a woman started working the same job on January 1, 2008 in America -- then April 28, 2009 symbolized how far into 2009 the woman had to work to ...1 week ago -
Friday 30th October is Equal Pay Day
bird of paradox —
Authority: 468
Friday 30th October is Equal Pay Day , a day of action lead by the Fawcett Society to draw attention to the fact that, on average, women’s full time mean hourly pay is 17.1% less than men’s. 30th October symbolically marks the last pay cheque that women receive in a year because, compared with men, we work on ...1 week ago -
Workplaces, Laws Fail to Keep up with Growing Role of Women Workers
AFL-CIO NOW BLOG —
Authority: 657
For the first time in our nation’s history, working women make up nearly half of all U.S. workers, and mothers are the primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in nearly two-thirds of American families. This dramatic shift from just a generation ago marks a permanent cultural change, yet most ...2 weeks ago -
Are we preaching to the choir?
AAUW Dialog —
Authority: 495
Every time we talk about working through the system to get equal pay for women, you have to wonder if we are preaching to the choir.You would figure women should know already know about the inequity they experience—in pay, in job promotions, in caring for family members.Shouldn’t we focus our attention on getting ...2 weeks ago -
Pay Inequity Continues for Female CEOs
feminist blogs —
Authority: 161
This isn’t a surprising revelation, but it’s an important one: According to a corporate research firm , female CEOs earned only 58% of what male CEOs earned in 2008– and their pay was slashed 3 times the amount of male CEO pay cuts . Additionally, men CEOs earned 3.5 times more in bonuses than women CEOs. ...2 weeks ago -
Keep getting better news out of the China Daily - this on the Wiz talking to constituency in Ozbama:
InvestmentWatch —
Authority: 449
…..”Lately I feel like somebody made a big mess and I’ve got my mop and I’m mopping the floor and the folks who made the mess are there (saying) ‘you’re not mopping fast enough. You’re not mopping the right way. It’s a socialist mop.’” …..The president also used speeches at two Miami political ...2 weeks ago -
English Suffragette Leader Arrives Here and Takes Questions
Saving Gas —
Authority: 162
Thursday, Oct. 21, 1909(use this link to access today’s entire issue)To a reporter’s question “Will women get equal pay for equal work if they have the vote?” Emmeline Pankhurst replied, “They will if they have good sense.” Mrs. Pankhurst, the leader of the England’s suffragette movement, arrived in New ...3 weeks ago -
Half Of All U.S. Workers Are Women — Can Policy Adapt To The New Reality?
Wonk Room —
Authority: 751
Today, for the first time in American history, half of all U.S. workers are women and mothers are the primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in nearly two-thirds of American families . As recently as 1969, women made up only one-third of the workforce, marking just how much of a shift has occurred in the last few ...3 weeks ago -
Mad Men Goes Old-School Feminist
http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor —
Authority: 656
Im not as down on this season of Mad Men as Matt , though I agree that Don as well-behaved husband is sadly ho-hum (and therein lies a whole treatise on marriage that I dont want to read). And Matt, youre right that the race/gender messaging is more didactic and less surprising than in sparkly Season One. But Im ...8 weeks ago
