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Remarks in a Roundtable Discussion on equal pay Author- President Clinton clinton, william. "Remarks in a roundtable discussion on equal pay." __ebsco host__. 1999. 11/13/08 .


 * **Women who have families with husbands that are hurt if their wives work hard and don't have benefits of equal pay.-CH
 * Equal pay problems are usually confined to women with children because they have intermittent periods in the workplace-CH
 * "The Paycheck Fairness Act" would put employers that have wage discrimination against women is unacceptble as decrimination against race and ethnicity-CH
 * Current laws helps those who are denied equal pay compensatory and punitive damages-CH

Equal pay for Women? Not till 2050 > Author:Kate Lornez > lorenz, kate. __Equal pay for women? not till 2950__. dec.20th, 2004 cnn. 11/13/08 .
 * 25 year old woman on average makes $523,000 less than an average man when they retire at the age of 65-CH
 * Current rate of change working women will not get equal pay until 2050-CH
 * Women only make 78% of a man's total wage in 2003-JH
 * 25 years ago, Women only made 62% of a man's total wage-CH
 * White woman make 75% of a white man's total wage-CH
 * Black woman make 91% of a black man's total wage-JH
 * Hispanic woman make 88% of a Hispanic man's total wage-JH
 * This is all becuase white men still earn the most-CH
 * Women earn less then men do at all education levels-JH
 * Wage gap is largest among the highly educated group-CH
 * Women don't apply for higher jobs because they think the need more time and preperation-CH
 * The ones who do apply are more sucessful then their male conterpart-JH
 * Women have lower recogonition in places where their talents are equal to men's who undervaluate a woman's contributions-CH
 * Female doctors earn 58% percent of their male conterpoart's salaries.-JH
 * Female nurses earn 91% percent and female teachers earn 87% of their male conterparts-CH
 * Woman legal assistants earn 90% of their male conterparts-JH
 * Engineering women earn 92% of their male conterparts-CH
 * Police and detective women earn 80% of their male conterparts-JH
 * (Non traditional) Female dentists pilots can expect to have a life time earns that is 150% higher than women in traditional careers-CH
 * Despite pay gap, women are more satisfied at work-CH
 * Lower raises fewer bonuses and having lower expectations for promotion, women are over-all happy with their jobs-JH

Nay, Blaine. __On Pay Equality for Women__. 11/13/08 .

1. studys show people perfer a woman's voice over a man's voice when calling a complaint department 43% to 18% (KN) 2. people rather hire women to babysit over men 91% to 4% (TS). Nay, Blaine. __on Pay Equality for Women__. 11/13/08 . __EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN – STILL NOT THERE__. polyzine.com. 11/13/08 . || 1. for every dollar a man makes, a woman only makes 74 cents (KN) 2. a woman is shorted around $148 a week (TS) 3. compared to a white man's dollar, an african american women only gets 63 cents (KN) 4. a hispanic women makes 54 cents for every dollar a white man makes (TS) 5. asian women make 80 cents (KN) 6. even though the work force is made up of half women the wage gap is there (TS) 7. due to the wage gap, the average family loses $4000 a year (KN) 8. all the working families lose $200 billion anually because of the wage gap (TS) 9. womens retirment benifits are less then half of the men (TS) 10. if equal pay was in effect then more than 50% of single mothers would be out of poverty (KN) 11. a 25 year old women out of college would lose $523,000 during her working life (TS) 12. a black college educated women gets paid less than a white highschool educated man (KN) 13. women have made progress from 59 cents to 74 cents of a mans dollar over the years (TS) 14. from graduates out of college females annually earn $13,788 less than man (KN) 15. studies show that if a job has more women and people of color than men, the less the job pays (TS) ||

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/04/15/ED264220.DTL# Chavez-Thompson, Linda. "Income Gap:Equal pay for women still a dream." __San Francisco Chronicle__ 15 4 2003. SFGate. Heartest newspaper. 11/13/08 .
 * it is unlikely for today's working women to get equal pay
 * 1) wage gap has stalled ot slowed down according to AFL-CIO statistics (TS)
 * 2) at this rate women in california wont get equal pay till 2044 (TS)
 * 3) in last decade little progression in closing the wage gap (TS)
 * 4) by closing wage gap women will rise above poverty (TS)
 * 5) more the a third more women than men will live in poverty according to the Census Bureau (TS)
 * 6) equal pay legislation has been introduced in at least 20 states (TS)

http://www.aflcio.org/issues/jobseconomy/women/equalpay/EqualPaybyOccupation.cfm

__Equal Pay by Occupation__. september 2004 America's union movement. 11/13/08 .
 * women lawyers(weekly earnings) earn nearly $206 less than male attorneys
 * 1) women office and administrative support earns $71 less a week then a male (TS)
 * 2) doctos- women $688 less each week then men's earnings (TS)
 * 3) Nurses- 90% female but earn $119 less per week then the10% of men (TS)
 * 4) Professors-$233 less a week (TS)
 * 5) Elementry school teacher- $86 less a week (TS)
 * 6) Food Service Superviso- about $122 less a week (TS)
 * 7) Waitresses- $67 less a waiters weekly earnings (TS)

Helen Wilkinson: Blair has failed the cause of equal pay for women
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/helen-wilkinson-blair-has-failed-the-cause-of-equal-pay-for-women-467926.html wilkinson, helen. "Helen Wilkinson: Blair has failed the cause of equal pay for women." __The Independent__ 27 02 2006. the independent commentator. 11/14/08 .
 * 1) women 30 years after the Equal Pay Act, there still is a 17.1 pay gap between men and women (JH)
 * 2) In 2004, the public sector pay gap was 10.1 for full time work pay. (KN)
 * 3) The private sector was 23.1 (JH)
 * 4) It will take more than 80 years to fill this pay gap between men and women. (KN)
 * 5) In Norway Korita Bekkemellem, they are threatening to close down companies unless 40% of women are recruited to their boards within the next 2 years. (JH)
 * 6) State-owned companies already have put 45% of women on their board. (KN)
 * 7) Women suffer economically when they become mothers (JH)
 * 8) IN 2004, there was a part time pay gap, where men worked full time, but women worked part time. This will take 140 years to close the gap. (KN)
 * 9) People don't acknowledge that women a "second shift" at home that men don't do and they don't get payed for it. (JH)
 * 10) In order to have a good economy, we need equality for men and women at work. (KN)

Fact Sheet: How Equal Pay Helps Men __Fact Sheet: How Equal Pay Helps Men__. america's union movement. 11/14/08 <http://www.aflcio.org/issues/jobseconomy/women/equalpay/FactSheetHowEqualPayHelpsMen.cfm>. Billitteri, Thomas J. "Gender Pay Gap." __CQ Researcher__ 18.11 (2008): 241-264. __CQ Researcher Online__. CQ Press. Your library's name, city, state abbreviation. 14 Nov. 2008 <http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre2008031400>.
 * 1) Pay discrimination not only effects women, but their husbands and families as well. (JH)
 * 2) More mothers participated in the paid work force than women without children. (KN)
 * 3) 60% of mothers with young children are in the workforce. (JH)
 * 4) African American women are hard hit only 65% say they earn half or more of their family’s income(KN)
 * 5) Nearly four in 10 African American women said they didn’t have equal pay.(JH)
 * 6) Men have another battle for equal pay, get lower pay because of discrimination against women. (KN)
 * 7) Men in jobs usually or predominantly held by women, such as sales, service and clerical positions, for example, are also victims of pay bias.(JH)
 * 8) In Iowa, wage adjustments for affected workers averaged about $3,500, men were 41 percent of the beneficiaries.(KN)
 * 9) would raise women's wages by 13 percent and men's wages by 1 percent. (JH)
 * 1) some of the wage gap stems from week government enforcement (TS)
 * 2) wage gap narrowed in last few decades (TS)
 * 3) rose from 58% in 1979 to 77% in 2006 for 35-44 year olds (TS)
 * 4) 45-54 year olds went from 57% to 74%3 (TS)
 * 5) the young workers 16-24 only about 5% (TS)
 * 6) discrimination lies at the heart og the pay gap debate (TS)
 * 7) "  Women have just not worked as many weeks and hours over their lives as men," (TS)
 * 8) a typical college women makes $46,000 a year compared to $62,000 a college educated man would make (TS)
 * 9) (TS)
 * 10) ¾ of women don’t have paid sick days in low wage jobs (TS)
 * 11) (TS)
 * 12)  98% of child care providers are women (TS)
 * 13) Maids and house cleaners- 87% women (TS)
 * 14) maids make $3000 less than janitors or building cleaners which is 72% men (TS)
 * 15) women guards make less than 30% of a male guards pay (TS)
 * 16) guards- women 95% as much work as a male but gets paid less than $200 a month

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica">__For Women in United States, Equal pay is still out of reach__. 10/22/07 The National Network for Women Employment. 11/14/08 [|http://www.openc.k12.or.us/citeintro/citeintro.php?sessionid=ecc35d576a38ae0cd3a776c12bc1bc70&Grd=Sec&sourcetype=Professional&lastname=&firstname=&title=&city=&publisher=©right=].
 * Ten years after graduation women are only paided 80% of their male counterparts and after 10 years the gap widens to only earning 69% of a male's pay-CH
 * Although wage gap has started closing, recent analysis shows that 60% of the change is due to decrease in men's real earnings, not increase in women's earnings-CH
 * Wage gap is largest for women of color-CH
 * Women with children make 10 to 15% less than women without children., but men with children don't experience a family penalty.-CH
 * A study was concluded that if working single mothers were paid the same as men with their same skills, their poverty rates would be cut in half. -CH

Equal Pay: Women Like Men, Only Cheaper
http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2008/04/equal-pay-women-like-men-only-cheaper.html <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica">__Equal Pay: Women Like Men, Only Cheaper__. 4/18/08 Tennessee Guerilla Women. 11/22/08 <Equal Pay: Women Like Men, Only Cheaper>.
 * women only made 77 cents of every dollar that men made(jh)
 * african american made only 63 cents and latinas 52 cents of a dollar that white white men get(jh)

State lawmakers urge greater efforts so men, women get equal payWednesday, April 09, 2008By Tom Barnes, Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau http://www.pittsburgpostgazette.com/pg/08100/871643-178.stm
 * when women work full time they earn about 59 cents to a mans dollars in 1963(jh)
 * in 2006 women only made 77cents to a mans dollar working full time (jh)
 * 18 cents progress in 40 years(jh)
 * the pay shortage hurts not only them but their families too(jh)
 * a female high school graduate earns 700,00 less than a male of the same status (jh)
 * a female college graduate earns 1.2 million less than a male of the same status(jh)
 * a female that earns a professional or graduate school degree earns 2 million less(jh)
 * they say the pay gap is because women take more time off to have kids when men work that whole time.(jh)

Wimbledon to Pay Equal Prize Money to Men, Women for First Time
Thursday, February 22, 2007 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,253678,00.html <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica">__Wimbledon to Pay Equal Prize Money to Men, Women for First Time__. Thursday, February 22, 2007 11/17/08 <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,253678,00.html>.
 * lasts years wimbledon games proze for the male was 1.170 million dollars and the womens was 1.117 million dollars(jh)
 * this year was the firdt year that they were paid the same prize money.(jh)

It's Time for Working Women to Earn Equal Pay http://www.networkwomen.com/equalpay.html <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica">__It's Time for Working Women to Earn Equal Pay__. Nteworking. 11/17/08 <http://www.networkwomen.com/equalpay.html>.
 * when were paid only 74 cents per dollars that was 26 dollars less for groceries, housing and child care(jh)
 * when they earn less they have less pensions than men.(jh)
 * 1994 women private-pension were 3,000 compared to 7,300(jh)
 * companys have realized that the reason that the pay gap has closed because mens pay has falllen not womens pay rising(jh)
 * for women lawyer weekly pay is 300 dollars less than mens attorneys(jh)
 * doctors 500 dollars less than men(jh)
 * women nures who are more domnate than men earn 30 dollars less than male nurses(jh)
 * women profeesors pay is $170 less than men(jh)
 * women teachers $ 70 less weekly than men(jh)

The Wage Gpa: A History of pay inequity and the Equal Pay Act http://www.infoplease.com/spot/equalpayact1.html <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica">Brunner, Borgna. __The Wage Gap__. infoplease. 11/17/08 <http://www.infoplease.com/spot/equalpayact1.html>.
 * Because of large amount of American women taking jobs in war industries during WW2 the National War Labor Board urged employers in 1942 to make voluntarily adjustments which equalize wage or salary paid to females with the rates payed to males for comparable quality and quantity of work on same or similar operations- CH
 * Employers failed to follow this "voluntary" request and at wars end most women were pushed out of their new jobs to make room for returning veterans-CH
 * Until early 1960 newspapers published separate job listings for men and women and jobs were categorized according to gender-CH
 * Higher level jobs listed almost exclusively under male listings-CH
 * Wasn't until passage of Equal Pay Act on June 10 1963 that it became illegal to pay women lower rates for same job strictly on basis of gender-CH
 * This act wasn't effective till June 11 1964-CH
 * Demonstrable difference in seniority merit quality or quantity of work or other considerations could still merit different pay between men and women-CH
 * Since 1963 when Equal Pay Act was signed closing of the wage gap between men and women has been a rate of about half a penny a year-CH
 * In 1963 women earned 59% of wages men earned -CH
 * In 2005 women earned 81% of men's wages an improvement of about half a penny per dollar earned every year-CH

Unequal pay leaves women £369,000 worse off * Women working full time will be paid £369,000 less than their male counterparts over their lifetime(jh) <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica">addley, ramesh, Esther, Randeep. __Unequal pay leaves women$369,000 worse off__. nov.15,2008 guardian.co.uk. 11/17/08 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/nov/15/pay-equality-women-money>.
 * Men are now paid 17.1% more than women for full-time work(jh)
 * part-time wages is 36.6%, up from 35.8% in 2007(jh)
 * The disparity would be enough to pay for 31 years of childcare or 22 new cars,to pay off the average student debt 18 times over.(jh)
 * women in the Government Equalities Office are paid 4% more than men.(jh)
 * http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/nov/15/pay-equality-women-money\

Growing pay gap between men and women prompts demands for audits
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/support_services/article5159015.ece <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica">Buckley, Christine. __Growing pay gap between men and women prompts demands for audits__. November 15, 2008 times online. 11/17/08 <http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/support_services/article5159015.ece>.
 * In the private sector the pay gap is 21.7 per cent while in the public sector it is 13.8 per cent.(jh)
 * women going into full-time work – an increase of 96,000 or 1.4 per cent compared with an increase of 17,000 or 0.2 per cent for men.(jh)
 * Women make up 39 per cent of the full-time workforce.(jh)
 * The gap in the median hourly rate for full-time workers widened from 12.5 per cent to 12.8 per cent.(jh)
 * gap for the mean, or average, hourly rate rose from 17 per cent to 17.1 per cent.(jh)
 * more women may find themselves as the sole or main income earner.(jh)
 * important than ever that they are not underpaid(jh)
 * tax returns of 146,000 people, also found big differences between overtime pay and bonus and commission pay for men and women(jh)
 * overtime pay for men was £28 per week compared with £10 for women and pay made up of commissions(jh)
 * bonuses and/or incentives was £13 per week for men and £5 for women(jh)
 * gross median weekly pay for men rose in the year to April by 4.6 per cent for men to £521(jh)
 * an annual rate of £27,500 – and by 4.4 per cent for women to £412 – an annual rate of £21,400(jh)

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Ranks of women workers grow: Par survey but number of females in senior roles falls off, syudy finds
2008 > Women as a percentage of senior executives/operators > Women as a percentage of senior executives/programmers > Women of color — % of all employees/operators > Women of color — % of all employees/programmers > % companies with good pay equity policies/operators > % companies with good pay equity policies/programmers > Career planning and retention for midlevel managers/operators > Career planning and retention for midlevel managers/programmers > Flex time/operators > Flex time/programmers
 * Women comprise 36.4% of the cable workforce, a slight increase from 2007’s 35.8%(jh)
 * Female staffers comprise 36.6% of all managers and professionals, close to last year’s 35.8% total(jh)
 * Women comprise 35.4% of all middle managers and professionals, compared to 2007’s 37.9%, (jh)
 * Women now comprise 22.8% of all senior executives, down from 27.7% only 12 months ago(jh)
 * > 2010 Goal ||
 * 18% || 25% ||
 * 26% || 45% ||
 * 15% || 20% ||
 * 15.7% || 20% ||
 * 38.4% || 75% ||
 * 56.3% || 75% ||
 * 76.9% || 85% ||
 * 73.3% || 75% ||
 * 84.6% || 100% ||
 * 93.3% || 100% ||

Telecommuting/operators
 * 76.9% || 100% ||

Telecommuting/programmers**
 * 66.7% || 100% ||

http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6615153.html?desc=topstory <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica">K.c.. "Ranks of Women Workers Grow." __multichannel news__ multichannel. multichannel news. 11/17/08 <http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6615153.html?desc=topstory>.
 * operators are striving to have 25% of top managers be female(jh)
 * goals call for 45% of the senior-executive workforce at programmers to be comprised of women(jh)
 * Only 12.6% of small company technology employees are women, compared to 15.1% overall.(jh)
 * IT engineer and project director level as only 16.5% are women, compared to 27.9% in the overall industry,(jh)

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http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/garnica/080916 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica">garnica, gabriel. __when it comes to equal pay for women,Brack is bam, bam, thank you,mam__. sept 16,2008 Renew America. 11/17/08 <http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/garnica/080916>.
 * Obama declared that "Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work." and added "I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons."(jh)
 * Obama's male legislative staffers earn an average of $ 54,397 while his female staffers average $ 45,152(jh)
 * Obama's five best-paid advisers, only one is a woman and, among his top 20, only seven are women.(jh)
 * Obama, John McCain's female staff average $ 55,878 while his male staff average $ 53,936.(jh)
 * McCain's highest-paid aides, with three of the top five and 13 of his highest-paid 20 employees.(jh)

Do Women and Men Earn Equal Pay in 2007?
 * five restaurant owners in Oregon plan to drop their prices for female customers by 23 cents(jh)
 * that's the number of extra days women will have to work in 2007 to catch up with men(jh)
 * Hillary Clinton is pushing the "Paycheck Fairness Act," a bill, would intensify anti-discrimination laws, create a negotiation skills training program for women and stop retaliation against employees who disclose their salaries(jh)
 * women make 77 percent of what men earn (or 23 percent less)(jh)
 * socialists among us may not like it, but professional football players make more than surgeonss, surgeonss make more than nursess, and nurses make more than nursing assistants(jh)
 * Gender discrimination may be a factor in why the jobs that pay better have a higher fraction of men, and the jobs that pay lower wages have more women(jh)
 * many reasons besides gender discrimination why women may choose, rather than be forced into, the lower median salary jobs9jh)
 * males are more apt to travel or recloate for work than women(jh)
 * take harder jobs, read boring sciences and take jobs in finaces(jh)
 * women perfer shorter and more fexibles jobs than men(jh)
 * According to Farrell, the median salariess of women exceeded that of men's by at least 5 percent(jh)
 * in some careers, up to 43 percent in 39 occupations(jh)
 * Some of the 39 professions include: sales engineerss, statisticianss, legislatorss, transportation workerss, automotive service technicians and mechanicss, speech-language pathologistss and library assistants(jh)
 * 77% number is not all overt sexism, gender discrimination may still be part of the story(jh)
 * women with kids are less likely to be hired than women without kids(jh)
 * A Carnegie Mellon study found that female job applicants were less likely to be hired by male managers(jh)
 * Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that female scientists were paid less than men are(jh)
 * One year out of college, women who are working full-time are earning 80 percent of what men earn(jh)\
 * ten years after graduation, women were earning 69 percent as much as men(jh)
 * the 77 cents on the dollar number, this study was based on median income from all jobs(jh)