SHORT TAKE; Working for women means getting paid less, study finds.(VARIETY)Cummins, H.J
There is no denying if there is a gender pay gap in America, the real question is why are women still getting paid less than men? Traditionally, women simply can not work as many hours as men due to their first job, being a mother. But is this the only reason women are not making...
But for those among us who earn a living in a far less glamorous manner, women are still being paid far less than men to do the same jobs. Even though it's 30 years after the Equal Pay Act, Britain has a female head of state and women have their own careers, cars, and can hav...
The more money earned during a work career, the more retirement benefits earned. So, women being paid less than men makes it difficult for women to earn social security benefits. According to the National Women’s Law Center, “Women are at greater risk of poverty as they age than men.”...
According to the study, it "compounds the disadvantages that women already face when building their retirement savings: women are paid less than men and often work fewer years, due to taking time out of the workforce for child-rearing. Additionally, women usually have longer retirements because ...
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Not only do these women get paid less as a result, they also lack access to state social programmes, such as unemployment benefit and pensions, which are often designed with formal employment status in mind. The result is that poorly paid women have few resources to fall back on. In ...
Black women are dealing with additional challenges—including long-standing issues of racial bias—and getting less support from managers and coworkers. There are two paths ahead. If companies recognize the scale of these problems and do all they can to address them, they can help their ...
” saysGloria Carcia Cisneros, a certified financial planner and wealth manager at Lourd Murray. “When you start with a lower base salary, it means that for all the subsequent pay increases, you are getting less than someone who is getting the same percentage increase but has negotiated ...