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The holidays can be a good time for retail stores, as people flock to malls and websites to buy iPads, Christmas sweaters, and dog antlers. But it's not such a good time for female retail workers, who make significantly less than their male counterparts — and who are less likely to get promotions or health insurance. More »
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ABC's remake of Charlie's Angels was canceled, but apparently the network had some leftover skirt suits. Why else would execs greenlight Bosom Buddies Deux — sorry, Work It? More »
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Men comprise three-quarters of employment in science, technology, engineering and math, and earn 14 cents more on the dollar than their female colleagues. But that's still better than the overall wage gap of 21 cents, as the Commerce Department pointed out when it released the data yesterday. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5827662&view=rss&microfeed=true According to a study by ForbesWoman, personal finance advisors have the most sexist job in America, as measured by the gap between men's and women's median weekly pay. Also on the top 10 most-sexist list are securities, commodities and financial services sales agents; retail salespeople; and insurance sales agents. This is despite the fact that women and men seem to be equally good at selling shit — says a scientist at salary website GetRaised, "Every piece of data we have suggests that there is not a significant performance gap [between men and women]." More »
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Did you hear the one about the C.E.O. who told the radio show that women make less money because they menstruate? Yeah. More »
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Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest on Coney Island is finally giving women their own division. More »
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Happy Equal Pay Day! Let's, um, "celebrate" the wage gap with some visual ways to understand what it is and why it exists. You can also check out Marlo Thomas's take on the progress from her 59-cent pin, and how far we still have to go. Or you can watch it put to song, Gaga style. More »
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Three female ex-employees are suing Virginia Tech, claiming the university paid them less than men in comparable positions. One says her would-be boss explicitly told her she was worth less because she was a woman. More »
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According to a new study, women start losing sleep relative to men when they're breastfeeding — and they never catch up. Could this be a hidden factor behind the wage gap? More »
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This morning, the Paycheck Fairness Act is on the Senate's agenda, having already passed the House. What is it, and what will it do? More »
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Before the most recent recession, women lagged behind men in managerial roles — especially if they were moms. More »
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Which is great news! If you live in a city, anyhow. And are under 30. And don't have kids. And... More »
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In the last 25 years, the number of women in the paid workforce has grown by 44 percent, while the proportions of women working full time and part time have stayed the same. How should we think about this? More »
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•  Women are making major headway in Czech politics. Weirdly, they have decide to celebrate this fact by releasing a racy calendar featuring photos of some of the leading female members of the Public Affairs party. More »
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According to one economist, women are less likely to work night or other unconventional shifts. Since these shifts often pay more, scheduling may contribute to the wage gap. Of course, the notorious second shift may impact women's scheduling "choices." [NYT] More »
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The New York Times today provides women with detailed advice for asking for a raise. It also hints at a negotiation secret you might not have heard before. Male friends have a whole new use! More »
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Unlike Miss America, Donald Trump's Miss USA pageants are pretty honest about what they're looking for: conventionally attractive young women with a talent for walking in heels. However, the newest addition to the Miss USA website has caused some controversy. More »
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Naysayers will tell you the gender wage gap is entirely a result of women choosing different professions, or that it's ceased to exist at all. Finally, there's a concise explainer to debunk these claims and give us some real numbers. More »
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•  Carolyn Rodgers, a poet and leading member of the Black Arts Movement, died on April 2. "What made her important was her unique use of language and her descriptions of our community," said Haki Madhubuti. He continues: More »
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• New research suggests that children as young as three are capable of understanding advertising and feeling the social pressure to consume certain brands. Brand visibility can even determine whether children consider others desirable playmates. More »
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•  New Jersey health officials report a recent influx in women hospitalized with infections from black-market butt-enhancement injections. ix women from the Dominican Republic were brought in with backsides resembling "moonscapes" and deep tissue infections from the hazardous mixture. • More »
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Today at Forbes Woman, Mary Ellen Egan questions the cause for the persistent wage gap between men and women. But where are the solutions? More »
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Thinking about getting an M.B.A.? While advanced degrees are often touted as the way to improve salary and access to top jobs, researchers have discovered that simply being male translates to more money and opportunity. More »
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A new report from the Pew foundation delves into "Women, Men, and the New Economics of Marriage," but judging from media reactions to the data, it really should have been titled "The Rise of the Sugar Mama." More »
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This week, the Economist cast a critical eye toward measuring the progress of women in the workplace. But their unit of measurement appears to be more concerned with "social consequences of women's economic empowerment" than the overall benefit to women. More »
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As the recession marches on, a number of news outlets have begun to examine the data surrounding issues of gender. Their conclusion? Women, more than ever, are becoming major players in the workforce. But what does this actually mean? More »
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Sorry David Zinczenko, but most recessions have been "he-cessions" - more men are in the workforce than women. And considering "Female compensation has fallen more during the recession than has male pay," both sexes are getting hammered. [Reuters, Economist] More »
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Stereotypes abound when it comes to the assessment of women's worth in the workplace. In yesterday's New York Times Magazine, Lisa Belkin analyzes the emerging trends facing women in the recession - and how these perceptions benefit and hurt us. More »
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Forbes magazine loves to track the wealthy. It has lists dedicated to billionaires, top earning CEOs, and top-earning dead celebrities. So why, when it comes to the new list about women, have editors decided to use the vague metric "influence?" More »
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An ex-boyfriend once asserted that women were their own worst enemy when it came to money. He asserted that if women would just speak up, they would see the benefit on their checks. He was only half right. More »
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Well-known tool Tucker Carlson is really upset that doctors who perform abortions are charging for their services! He calls it "enriching" themselves. I call it being hypocritical and disingenuous, like most of the right-wing on this issue. More »
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Today the minimum wage in the United States goes up to $7.25 an hour. Of course, some people will argue that such an increase will hurt the economy, overlooking the fact that there's plenty of good news for women. More »
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Women pharmacists have the highest median wage of all female workers, higher than doctors (number six) or computer scientists (number ten). Overall, women's earnings are about 80% of men's. [Forbes] More »
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Conservatives who like to blame the wage gap on women's choices should know: working mothers are 100% less likely to be hired than childless candidates, and get offered $11,000 less a year when they are. Some "choices." [Business Week] More »
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Today is Equal Pay Day, in which we celebrate that the average woman has to work nearly 4 more months to earn the yearly salary of her male colleagues. ("Celebrate" might be the wrong word.) 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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The income gap between men and women may actually be a gap between men with a traditional outlook on gender roles and everyone else. A new study finds that men who believe in traditional roles for women make more money than men who don't. The wage gap between men who think they should be making more than women was 10 times as large as the pay gap between men and women with more egalitarian views. Women with more egalitarian views don't make much more than women with traditional views, so both groups are equally screwed. "When workers' attitudes become more traditional, women's earnings relative to men suffer greatly," says study co-author Timothy Judge, an organizational psychologist at the University of Florida. "When attitudes become more egalitarian, the pay gap nearly disappears." More »
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People who watch crime shows like Law & Order and CSI spend more on groceries, according to a new study. Brutal TV homicides: making us hungry! • Do you want a crush to fall head-over-heels for you? Take them him or her a roller-coaster ride. • Diane Webber, the model/actress who starred in the 1962 film Mermaids of Tiburon, has died at the age of 76. RIP. • Animals get STDs too. (In fact three of the major STDs in humans originated in animals.) • A married couple in England claim to be the world's oldest combined couple with 205 years between the two of them (The wife is 100, the hubby is 105). • More »
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Where is the mental health outreach for our veterans? John Wylie Needham, an Iraq war veteran who described himself as "falling apart at the seams" upon returning from combat, has been arrested for beating his girlfriend to death in Orange County, California. • New reports about side effects and allergic reactions in young women who have received shots of Gardasil have experts wondering if these and other side effects have been researched thoroughly enough. • The MoMA has named longtime curator Ann Temkin as the chief curator for painting and sculpture, one of the biggest and most prestigious jobs in the museum and modern art world. • More »
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