Good quality intelligent men on these boards today is severely lacking. Instead what they’d like to believe is logic comes off as hostility, arrogance, and quite frankly, misogony. None of you can stand women. That is obvious. So you must do better to be thought of as credible in any discussion.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Careers/10/22/equal.pay/
Did you know that, according to the AFL-CIO, the average 25-year-old woman who works full-time, year-round until she retires at age 65 (if that’s when she’s able to retire) will earn $523,000 less than the average working man?
At the current rate of change, working women will not achieve equal pay until after the year 2050. That’s almost 100 years after President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, prohibiting discrimination based on sex resulting in unequal pay for equal work.
On average, women make 78 percent of men’s wages, according to a 2003 study by the U.S. Department of Labor. This is, however, a marked improvement over 25 years ago — in 1979, women made 62 percent of what men earned.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=306151
November 12, 2007 (Computerworld) — According to Computerworld’s annual Salary Survey, male IT professionals continue to outearn their female counterparts.
At the highest level of IT, male CIOs and vice presidents made on average $179,026 in total compensation this year, while women in the same jobs took in nearly $6,000 less, at $173,052. The pay differences between middle managers and technical workers are similarly unequal.
This salary inequity between men and women in IT is a longstanding issue, but it could have short-term consequences for companies that pay female IT workers less, according to Umesh Ramakrishnan, vice chairman of CTPartners, an executive recruiter in New York.
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* Women securities, commodities and financial services sales agents earned $33,852 compared to $60,736 for men
* Women marketing and sales managers earned $46,696 compared with $74,932 for men
* Women physicians and surgeons earned $50,856 compared with $97,448 for men
* Women government lobbyists employed by nonprofits earned $73,907 compared with $96,655 for men
* Women editors-in-chief of magazines made about $79,000 compared with $104,000 for men
Women and work
* * Women accounted for 51% of all workers in the high-paying management, professional and related occupations in 2007
* In 2007, the median weekly earnings of women working full-time were $614 – 80 percent of men’s $766 weekly earnings
* In 1979, women earned about 63 percent as much as men
* One year out of college, women working full time earn 80 percent as much as their male colleagues earn.
* Ten years after graduation, women earn 69 percent as much as men earn
* Sources: U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau, American Association of University Women
