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Scant progress in working women's fight for equal pay
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Somewhere in the recesses of my desk drawer there is a battered
old pink pin bearing the message: 59 cents. This was not the price
of the pin. It was the price of being a working woman circa 1969.
When these pins first began to appear at political conferences
and conventions, women were earning 59 cents for every male dollar.
Today, after 30 years of change, guess what? Women are earning 74
cents for every male dollar.
We have, in short, made economic progress at roughly the rate...
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Male-female wage gap is far less than it seems
The Boston Globe
; ... Goodman decries the fact that the average American woman earns 75 cents for every dollar earned by a man ("Scant progress in working women's fight for equal pay," op ed). But is this so-called "wage gap" really a result of invidious discrimination, as Goodman suggests ...
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