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In 2005, economists noticed that the last recession (in 2001) helped reduce the wage gap between men and women to the lowest level in decades. What will this recession do for women? More »
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Were you excited to see the Ledbetter Act signed? Emily Douglas at The American Prospect has one good reason (The Paycheck Fairness Act) that you need to not rest on those laurels. [American Prospect] More »
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Lilly Ledbetter is probably happier today than she was when we interviewed her since the House just passed her eponymous pay equity bill and the Senate will take it up next week. [Breitbart] More »
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I really want to hate CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric, she of the perma-grin and too many years being fluffy on morning television, but then I read profiles like Portfolio's and can't. More »
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As Jessica mentioned earlier today, last night, at a rally in Nevada, Sarah Palin brought up the fact that the average woman in Barack Obama's Senate office makes less than the average man saying, "Does he think that the women aren't working as hard? Does he think that they are 17 percent less productive?" This, naturally, comes from the ticket that doesn't support the Ledbetter pay equity legislation because it would cause too many lawsuits! But there are actual facts involved that are worth pointing out. More »
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In a seminal study that probably surprises few people, a study of both male-to-female and female-to-male transgender people shows that men who become women make less money afterwards and women who become men make more. This is especially unsurprisingly to Stamford scientist Ben Barres, who made waves when pointed out that he does better and is more respected as a male scientist than he was as a woman. [Time, Science Daily] More »
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The American Prospect has a series of stories out this week about the prospects for making up the racial wage and income gap (and how African-American and Hispanic women have the worst gap of any subgroup). Suffice it to say, the prospects are not great because the causes are so varied and intractable, ranging from non-racial reasons that simply disproportionately affect African-Americans to straight-up discrimination to the fact that getting advanced degrees can make the wage gap worse — despite what John McCain thinks, education doesn't flatten out the wage. So whither the race for equality? More »
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As many women who have plenty of education and training would tell you — except for Carly Fiorina, who the McCain campaign is keeping under lock and key after her comments that John McCain couldn't be a CEO — having those things is no guarantee of pay equity despite whatever crap John McCain insists on spewing. A recent study by the Chartered Management Institute in the U.K. shows that, actually, the pay disparities between male and female business executives, on the average, worse than the pay disparities in most other professions. More »
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The real problem with writing about Sarah Palin's record on women's issues is that she doesn't really have one. Once you've learned that she's against reproductive choice and was on board with cutting city funds for rape kits, you've really got to stretch to find anything she's done or said on other issues affecting females. Of course, that's sort of it's own problem. I mean, it's not good when a female governor can't be found talking about rape and domestic violence in a state with high levels of both. More »
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When I wrote my first real post about Sarah Palin as the Republican's Vice Presidential nominee, I noted — as many others were noting and have since — that she was hardly the candidate with the best or even remotely complete record on women's issues like reproductive choice or pay equity. I did so even as my email inbox was crackling with false emails about her family and comments from supposed liberals about everything from her ability to parent a special-needs child and govern at the same time to variations on the pretty-can't-be-smart theme. More »
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Last weekend, McCain surrogate Carly Fiorina told women to stop allowing the Democrats to win their votes on the issue of abortion, saying, "The Democratic Party has done a disservice to women by trying to hold women hostage to the issue of Roe v. Wade." In Carly's world view (and in her speech last night), the issue is the economy, not abortion. Carly might have been the only person at the RNC last night for whom abortion isn't that important an issue. More »
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It's not terribly often that you get to interview a feminist icon. Well, I mean, I guess it's getting more common for me, but still, it's pretty cool. So when my colleague over at Glamocracy asked me if I wanted to interview Lilly Ledbetter, I was like, "Hell, yeah." Don't recognize her name? If you ever have to sue for unequal pay, you will want to be thanking her — her case against Goodyear spawned Congressional legislation, a mention in nearly every speech this week and a speaking slot at the Democratic convention on Tuesday night. More »
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Sarah Palin was selected by John McCain today to be the second woman in our country's history to run for the Vice Presidency of the United States. She's going to attempt the break the glass ceiling that Geraldine Ferraro first cracked back in 1984, which is a cool thing on some level. But it does raise the question raised by the primaries already once this year — is it more important to vote for a woman, or to vote for a candidate that represents the issues of importance to women? More »
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