Sunday 29 January 2012

US Women

In October 2010, The White House published its paper on ‘Jobs and Economic Security for America's Women’, you can download the complete pdf here.

‘When America first put the Equal Pay Act on the books in 1963 women earned 59 cents for every dollar paid to men. Today, almost 50 years after the Equal Pay Act became law, women are paid an average of 77 cents for every dollar paid to men. The gender wage gap has narrowed, but it has not disappeared and has been virtually flat over the past decade.’