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Poverty in America 2009 – Wage Parity
Wage parity between men and women in the United States is a matter of law. You cannot discriminate in wages and salaries solely on the basis of sex. Yet, in the many years since that became the law of the land, women’s wages have never reached 100% parity. There are many reason why that is. We are doing better, and the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual publication titled Income, Poverty and Health Insurance in the United States: … Read entire article »
Filed under: Analysis, Original writing, Poverty, Reporting
Poverty in America – wage parity between the sexes
Wage parity is the measure of how close wages and salaries for women come to those for men, It is recorded as a percentage with 100% being equal pay or parity. From a historical perspective, the parity ratio has been showing gains for women for some time. Click on the graph for a larger image. The Census Bureau’s report titled Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2008 has contained a section on wage … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Economy, Analysis, Original writing, Poverty
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