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Womens Salaries

18 More Cents... in 50 Years

Deborah J. Vagins | Posted 04.09.2013 | Women
Read More: Women's Rights, Paycheck Fairness Act, Equal Pay Day, Equal Pay, Women's Salaries, Gender and the Workplace, Men's Salaries, How Much Do Women Make, Gender Discrimination, Women and Work, Women News
Deborah J. Vagins

On this Equal Pay Day, we must urge Congress to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, which provides a much-needed update to the Equal Pay Act -- a law that has not been able to achieve its promise of closing the wage gap because of limited enforcement tools and inadequate remedies.

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Equal Pay -- Will We Ever Get There? An Interview With Lilly Ledbetter

Martha Burk | Posted 06.15.2012 | Politics
Read More: Fair Pay, Ledbetter v. Goodyear, Working Mothers, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay, Lilly Ledbetter, Equal Pay, Women's Salaries, Women Paid Less, Gender Discrimination, Equal Salaries, Sex Discrimination, Politics News
Martha Burk

April is the month every year when the paychecks of women working full-time, year-round catch up with what men earned by the previous December 31. This year it's April 17.

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The Sport That Pays It's Female Coaches 2/3 Less

The New York Times | Posted 04.03.2012 | Women
Read More: Womens-Salaries, Female Sports, Sports, Coaches, Womens Basketball, Basketball, Female Coaches, Womens-Pay, Women News

Women's college sports have changed enormously since the adoption of Title IX in 1972. More teams are being fielded and more athletes are participatin...

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Is Occupy Good for Women?

Christine Bork | Posted 03.11.2012 | Chicago
Read More: Occupy Wall Street Women, Occupy Wall Street Feminism, OWS Women, Occupy Wall Street, Women's Equality, Women's Salaries, Female Executives, Gender Wage Gap, Chicago News
Christine Bork

If the Occupy movement is a fight for economic equality, it should be fighting for women to earn equal pay for equal work. Occupy says our biggest problem is the growing disparity in wealth. I say women have always faced this disparity.

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