Eight Things in the Poverty Report That’ll Make Women Mad

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-18/eight-things-in-the-poverty-report-that-ll-make-women-mad.html



1. Gender inequality is a grim reality in the world’s largest economy. For starters, median earnings adjusted for inflation -- see chart -- came in at $50,033 for men last year compared with $39,157 for women. Alas, the gap is alive, and still significant.

2. As for the female-to-male earnings ratio, you have to really squint -- see chart -- to see an uptick last year. Women earned 78 cents for every dollar that a man made, after 77 cents in 2012. A penny hardly counts as a meaningful improvement.

3. By most measures, women are more likely to be impoverished than men. That’s whether you’re looking at this decade -- see chart -- or the last one, or even the one before that.

4. Needless to say, impoverished women far outnumber their male counterparts -- see chart. The gap between the genders has also widened: Last year, there were 5.1 million more women in poverty than men. Back in 2003, that difference was at 4.3 million.

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1. Should make everyone mad.

I don't get it. I got mad (and heartbroken) when any minority group was denied any equal right and I still do. I didn't only get mad, I got into demonstration lines, picketing the state house.

So, why would women getting paid less than men make only women mad? Are people other than me asking for whom the bell tolls and shrugging if it is for me and not them?

If this doesn't make everyone mad, shame on you is all I can say.

What also makes me mad? We're in the fucking majority and this still happens, so maybe shame on some of us, too. This is not victim shaming. This dumb voter shaming.