Pay gap still huge for working women

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_5213

By Mark Gruenberg
22 April 2012

WASHINGTON - Fifty years after President John F. Kennedy signed a law pushing equal pay for equal work, the pay gap between working men and women remains wide, studies show. And for minorities, it’s a chasm.

That led women’s rights groups, unions and Obama Administration Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to seize on Equal Pay Day to again campaign to close the pay gap. But, this year, few mentioned legislation that would put teeth in Kennedy’s statute.

Equal Pay Day, April 17, marked the day this year when the median yearly wage for a working woman equals the previous year's median for a working man, with all other factors, including education, job type and job experience, being equal.

That translates into 77 cents in income for a working woman for every dollar a working man earns, says the National Women’s Law Center. The working woman lost $10,784 last year to that gap, NWLC added. It’s a 54-cents-per-dollar ratio for an Hispanic woman and 62 cents per dollar for an African-American woman.

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[TheFarseer]

1. This continuing to be a story baffles me

My fiance makes more money than I do and alot of guys I know have wives that make more than they do. The women I work with in the same position as I am, make the same money I do. Is this CEO pay skewing the numbers?