Interview with Professor Ryan Herzog of the University of Oregon clarifies that a majority of the pay differential between men and women is due to the fields of work they are in.Men typically have jobs in higher paying fields such as business and finance and women choose more humanity- oriented professions. Topic:Should the Obama administration [...]
Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home
Pamela Stone’s Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home is an in-depth look into women with advanced degrees and high-paying jobs that choose to leave their careers and become full-time moms. These women have become a widely recognized cultural type named “the new traditionalists.” Stone’s research looks into the causes behind this [...]
Women and Propaganda
This is a clip from the 1943 United States Government propaganda film to get women in the workforce to replace men who had gone off to war. The government promises women equal pay for equal work back then, and day care for those with children. Topic: Should the Obama administration work to eliminate pay inequality? [...]
Fair Pay Law Strikes A Blow For Equal Pay
National Public Radio story about Lilly Ledbetter finally achieving victory not only for herself, but for the nation’s women to receive pay retributions.Interview with Lilly included , highly effective hearing her voice. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99995431 Topic: Should the Obama administration work to eliminate pay inequality? Category:Multimedia/Journalistic, radio broadcast Title: Fair Pay Law Strikes A Blow For Equal [...]
Women Are Teachable
Image from a possibly 40′s era document called “Women Are Teachable” obviously written for male supervisors, with a very “patronizing” attitude toward women employees.http://mildcolonialboy.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/womenareteachable2.jpg Topic: Should the Obama administration work to eliminate pay inequality for women? Category: Image Title: Women Are Teachable Publication Information: I came across this gem doing a Google Image search, which [...]
What Kind Of Economic Stimulus Do American Women Want?
In this article, Ruth Rosen claims that women remain pawns in the struggle between political parties. Many thinking women wonder where the jobs are for women in the stimulus planning, pushing for spending on healthcare and education over roads and bridges.http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/127613/what_kind_of_economic_stimulus_do_american_women_want/?page=entire Topic: Should the Obama administration work to eliminate pay inequality for women? Category: Academic/Article [...]
Fair Pay For Trial Lawyers?
Article appearing in Men’s News Daily by Marshall Rockford Goodman claims the Ledbetter Act gives “a largely immoral,if not sociopathic, group of attorneys another license to steal from companies.” Mr. Goodman also believes the act ” appeals to women’s inculcated sense of oppression.”http://mensnewsdaily.com/x/2009/02/16/so-called-women%E2%80%99s-fair-pay-act-a-payback-to-trial-lawyers/ Topic; Should the Obama administration work to eliminate pay inequality for women? [...]
The Truth About The Pay Gap
The article,” The Truth About the Pay Gap, Feminist Politics and Bad Economics” by Steve Chapman, states Equal Pay Day is named for something that does not exist. Chapman believes the difference in career paths between men and women may reflect a basic unfairness of what is expected of women, however, he believes current claims [...]
Women Have Come A Long Way, The Family Picture Is Less Bright
This article states that women are poised to outnumber men in the labor force because of the deep recession the nation is experiencing. Author Dalton Conley believes policy needs to address the widening income gap among families, as higher paying jobs are more likely to have women at work than lower paying ones that do [...]
The Third Shift
The Third Shift by Michele Bolton is a study of the phenomena working women experience. The first shift is their actual paying job, the second is coming home to take care of a family, and the third is the continual thoughts and insecurities about not doing a good job at any one thing because of [...]
