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Gigi Jones

G Jones — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:57:08 -0700

Community developer interested in empowering communities to be their best, providing education and safety for children, decent affordable housing, and good jobs with good pay and career ladders.

I do not put personal information on the web because I never know where it may end up or who may want to use it for some nefarious reason. However, I am a political junkie who loves blogging and writing comments on issues of importance to me. I hope you won't hold that against me.

Ellen Shaffer

Ellen Shaffer — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:24:54 -0700

Ellen T

Ellen T — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:07:30 -0700

Women's Wages Less Than Men

Armand Biroonak — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:00:00 -0700

Women earn 78 cents for every dollar earned by men. Over the course of her career, the typical working woman loses almost a quarter of a million dollars in wages.

Gender Wage Gap Begins After Higher Education

Armand Biroonak — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:00:00 -0700

A longitudinal study of male and female professionals found that the gender pay gap begins immediately after college, when women take first jobs that pay only 80 percent as much as men’s first jobs do, and continues throughout women’s lives--even though women earn higher college GPAs, are more likely to complete graduate work or advanced training, and spend about as much time at work as men do.

Gender Wage Gap Narrows at Snails Pace, Despite Legislation

Armand Biroonak — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:00:00 -0700

Since the Equal Pay Act was signed in 1963, the gender wage gap has narrowed by less than half a cent per year. At this rate, women and men will have to wait another fifty years to earn equal wages.

Subprime Lenders Targeted Women

Armand Biroonak — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:00:00 -0700

Though women on average have higher credit scores than men do, women are 32 percent more likely than men to have subprime mortgages.

New Report: Recession Taking A Toll On Women

Toby Chaudhuri — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:00:00 -0700

Americans who work hard and play by the rules deserve the opportunity to succeed and achieve, but that's simply not the case. Women are facing new and heightened risks in this uncertain economy, according to a new report released today by Sen. Kennedy, D-Mass. Key findings of the report follow.

--In the past year, the unemployment rate among adult women workers has gone up more rapidly than for men — rising from 3.8 percent in March 2007 to 4.6 percent in March 2008, an increase of 20 percent, compared with a 17 percent increase among adult men.

--The downturn has caused women’s wages to fall and this decline is significantly larger than what men have suffered. In 2007, the real median wage for adult women workers dropped 3 percent; wages for adult male workers dropped by .5 percent over the same period. Women’s wages are also more volatile than men’s wages, and they face a much higher risk of seeing large drops in income than men do.

--Women are also disproportionately at risk in the current foreclosure crisis, since women are 32 perecent more likely than men to have subprime mortgages.

--Existing pay disparities for women exacerbate the economic strain on women and on households run by women, since women earn only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men

--Women have significantly fewer savings to fall back on in a time of economic hardship. Non-married women have a net worth 48% lower than non-married men, and women are less likely than men to participate in employer-sponsored retirement savings programs.

The full text of the report can be found here.

Laura Walker

Laura Walker — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:33:48 -0700

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