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Obama Seeks to Lift U.S. Women’s Pay Further Out of ‘Mad Men’ Era
"Obama is also pushing for more favorable workplace policies such as paid work leave, minimum wage increases and greater access to pre-K education. These policies are popular with women, many of whom must balance full-time jobs with domestic duties, and often have to take time [...]
Obama Seeks to Lift U.S. Women's Pay Further Out of 'Mad Men' Era
"Obama is also pushing for more favorable workplace policies such as paid work leave, minimum wage increases and greater access to pre-K education. These policies are popular with women, many of whom must balance full-time jobs with domestic duties, and often have to take time [...]
What Obama said about Women
Here's what he said and a brief look behind the assertions he made: Pay: "[Women] still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it's an embarrassment. A woman deserves equal pay for equal work." Hard to argue [...]
Equal Pay for Working Women would Boost the Economy
On the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act—a bill that reinstated women’s ability to contest unlawful pay discrimination and was the first bill signed into law by President Obama—analysis from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) finds that the poverty rate for working women would be cut in half if women were paid the same as comparable men, and that greater pay transparency would increase women’s pay.
Why College Degrees Pay Off Big After 65
Having a college degree, along with the higher income that such a credential commands, generally increases your odds of retiring on time. Now, a new study shows that your degree is likely to keep giving you a financial edge even if you need, or choose, [...]
Lilly Ledbetter Says the President Can Do More for Equal Pay: Sign an Executive Order
[...] "The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is just the first of many tools women need. My fight for equal pay was never supposed to end with me, and it was never meant to be partisan. Letting that be the case would be an additional [...]
