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    0 starsshiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 27 2008 | women, politics, economics, news
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    • ms.kruse - Apr 27 2008

      I heard a tiny blurb on NPR on Friday about this and that was it. WTF? I wonder if pay disparities are more of a problem in traditionally male dominated industries like this Goodyear example, and the factory situations they mentioned. I'd be more apt to expect it in that situation than say mine. But if your bosses seem like very enlightened, fair, PC people why would you have any reason to suspect it? I'm not going to ask my male counterpart at work how much he makes because it's rude. So, how would I know? Yet, I keep hearing the stat that I make 77 cents to the dollar that my male colleagues make, so there must be something to that. I'd just like to see that stat unpacked a little bit. In this article when they say a Latina makes 52 cents to the dollar a white man makes, are they comparing the two groups in the same exact field with the same number of years of experience?
      Anyway, I'm not the least bit surprised that the Republicans are blocking this. They want us all at home hand-washing our husbands' underwear like Nancy Reagan used to do.

    • shiwani - Apr 27 2008

      Yeah, I think what you're saying about discussing salary being taboo is really key here. Who's holding employers accountable for this type of discrimination? Also, this just propagates the notion of women's careers being "secondary" because if one person decides to stay home in a couple, it's usually the one with a lower earning potential out of necessity.

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