Because most states offer teacher retirement benefits based on their salary, states are extending the gender
wage gap into retirement.
Not exact matches
This certainly throws a wrench
into the age - old gender
wage gap debate: the highest - paid female CEO in America right now is 59 - year - old Martine Rothblatt — who was born a male.
Instead, «it's telling us that getting women
into management roles is necessary — but maybe not a sufficient condition for reducing the gender
wage gap.»
With that cheeky introduction by host Carlos Watson, the PBS debate show Point Taken last night dove headlong
into the fractious debate of salary transparency that has been gaining steam of late, especially as a way to bridge widening
wage gaps based on gender, race, and social class.
In other words, while it is certainly good news that women have made major inroads
into management, has the unevenness of women's representation across occupations stunted progress in closing the gender
wage gap?
Citizen Action of New York's Karen Scharff agreed, saying his new language» is very much tied
into his call for ending the inequality
gap and raising the minimum
wage... Public funding of elections is not only a way to end corruption but to give ordinary New Yorkers a voice in our elections.»
In the budget, the minimum
wage hike was lumped
into one bill that also included $ 24.8 billion for schools and wiping out the
Gap Elimination Adjustment that the Senate Republicans wanted.
Included in the governor's agenda are plans to codify Roe v. Wade
into state law, pass the Equal Rights Amendment and close the
wage gap statewide, among other things.
They include codifying Roe vs Wade
into state law, combating sexual harassment and closing the gender
wage gap.
The male teacher
wage gap was -22.1 percent in 1979 and improved to 15.0 percent in the mid-1990s, but worsened in the late 1990s
into the early 2000s.
Gender
Wage gaps stems from qualifications (STEM vs Arts, overwhelmingly male), Hours worked, fields you go
into e.g A GP vs a Surgeon, Conveyance vs Trial Lawyer etc. and results (Which are correlated with the first three, not down to gender.)
San Francisco Labor & Employment partner Seth Neulight provides commentary in this feature article on California Governor Brown's signing
into law a bill that aims to close the gender
wage gap.
While many of the statistics about the
wage gap in legal professions are very discouraging, there is one aspect that may put some of it
into perspective.
When differences in educational backgrounds, years of experience, and employment characteristics are taken
into account, the
wage gap between African American and white female, full - time teachers is reduced to roughly 93 cents on the dollar.