Sentences with phrase «women workers earned»

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Comparing full - time, year - round workers, women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn, said Dana Britton, director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark, women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn, said Dana Britton, director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark, Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J..

Oxfam said that women workers were worst hit by global inequality as they consistently earn less than men and usually have lower paid and more insecure forms of work.

According to data from the American Community Survey, in 2014, the pay gap for full - time workers was smallest in Washington, D.C. (There, women were paid 90 percent of what men earned.)

The CUPW claims that, on average, rural postal workers earn 30 % less than their urban counterparts; the majority of rural carriers are women.

And a Labor Department study points out an earnings anomaly: while self - employed men earn as much as or more than similar workers paid a wage or a salary, self - employed women earn substantially less than their wage and salary counterparts.

The pay gap isn't just between men and women: Overall, top executives in the U.S. earn roughly 300 times more than the average worker, according to The New York Times.

If women, seniors and immigrants, collectively, were employed at their level of education, earning equal pay to men born in Canada, personal incomes would increase by $ 174 billion, or an equivalent of 1.6 million more workers.

These investments to expand and strengthen child care and early education programs complement the Administration's other efforts to help working families, including offering workers the opportunity to earn paid sick and family leave, a higher minimum wage, and equal pay for women.

He said 70 percent of tipped workers in New York are women; African - American workers earn less money in tips; and the tipping dynamic can lead to sexual harassment.

Cuomo says the tipped wage system inhibits workers who earn tips from coming forward with concerns about exploitation and harassment, and it disproportionately affects women and people of color.

Today, 54 % of those earning less than $ 15 an hour are women; 48 % of all black workers and 49 % of Hispanic workers statewide make less than $ 15.

The danger is highest when relatively well - off workers go to places where poverty forces women to earn money through sex.

As well he exhibits traits of courage, patience and self - sacrifice during his interactions with his well - fed cat, the old woman with dementia and the sex - trade worker whose unplanned pregnancy is about to seriously impact her earning potential.

Women and lower - earning workers rely particularly heavily on the program.

More than 85 percent of these workers are women earning less than $ 3 per day.

The said defence was based upon the argument that there was a genuine material factor justifying the difference between the salaries received by around 4,000 female employees in around 50 different roles and various comparator groups of refuse workers, road workers road cleaners, and gardeners, some of whom, with bonuses and overtime could take home in excess of # 50,000 per annum while women on the same level earned # 12,000.

On average, unionized workers across Canada earn $ 5.17 per hour more than non-union workers; women in unions earn $ 6.89 per hour more and get paid more fairly; and young workers (aged 14 to 24) earn $ 3.16 per hour more when they work under the protection of a collective agreement.

Since women earn on average less than men, basing wages on a worker's previous pay only perpetuates wage inequality.