<![CDATA[Jezebel: Wages]]> http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: Wages]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/wages http://jezebel.com/tag/wages <![CDATA[The Gender Gap in Wages]]> This graph from the Bureau of Labor Statistics highlights the gender wage gap. Among full-time workers during the last three months of 2010, men made more per week than women in each of these occupational categories: More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5746734&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The "Hecession" Is Just Hype]]> 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 »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5377880&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[You Call $1 A Week A "Living" Allowance, Barry Obama?]]> Suspicious news out today: Malia and Sasha Obama get weekly allowances of: ONE DOLLAR A WEEK. Now, I understand that those two don't exactly have to worry about filling up the Dodge Ram in times like this, but seriously, a dollar? About the best thing one dollar will get you these days is four chicken McNuggets. (Or wait, two cigarettes.) Even I recall getting three dollars, I think, although I don't remember because I am fucking old, but anyway, presupposing that in today's dollars that is $5.78. Of course, slut dolls and handheld electronic toys were probably made in countries with higher living standards than Laos in those days, but that is more than offset by the fact that Crayola crayons are not only still manufactured in Pennsylvania, rising commodity prices have sent the price of a 24-crayon box soaring to $4.95. That's 35 made beds. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5028247&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Child Care Professionals: Worked Like Dogs, Paid Like Stay-At-Home Moms]]> In Emily Yoffe's Human Guinea Pigs column today, the Slate writer tries out being a day care worker in D.C.'s Gap Community Child Care Center, which mostly provides subsidized child care to low-income women so that they can work. It is, to say the least, not a fun job. There's screaming and fighting and crap-filled diapers, runny noses and messy meals and the constant need to entertain a squirming mass of children to prevent even more screaming, fighting and snotting (because nothing can stem the tide of shit). At the end of a long say, Emily (a mother herself) catches herself thinking, "This is the reason television and cocktails were invented, " and, amen to that! But Emily also points out one sad but true fact of the child care industry: expensive though it might be for to put kids in child care, some of the women least likely to be able to afford child care are the women who provide it. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5019617&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sports Bra Saves Stranded Hiker • L.A. Strippers Sue Clubs For Tips]]> An American hiker in the Bavarian Alps who was stranded for 3 days was rescued after she attached her sports bra to a cable used by lumberjacks to get their attention. • A new study has found that men are more likely to share their creative work online than women. • Lesbians are barred from donating blood in China because they are semantically lumped in with gay males and therefore thought of as being "high-risk" for HIV. • How long until there is a mass squealing conservative outrage over this JC Penney "teen sex" ad? • Strippers are suing top strip joints in L.A. over unpaid wages and tips and making the strippers pay other workers in the clubs. • Oh, also, high gas prices are hurting legal brothels in Nevada that relied heavily on randy truckers with extra (probably company) cash. Hard times. • The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution to reclassify rape as a "weapon of war." It's about time. • Female college students in England have been warned about whistling at construction workers near their college. However, no complaints have been made and no women have come forward about the whistling. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5018947&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Young Women In Big Cities More Empowered Than Ever To Go Shopping]]> City-dwelling women in their twenties are making slightly more than urban men, according to a demographic study featured in today's New York Times. Oh, hallelujah. Maybe this will make up for the money we spend on tampons, birth control, Sephora, getting shoes reheeled every two weeks, manicures, pedicures, eyebrows, bras, earrings, cinchy accent belts, self-tanner .... except, ha ha ha yeah not even close! We looked for more on the work of Andrew Beveridge, the demographer who penned the study back in March, and found the abstract to his more recent work slightly more up our alley.
No Quick Riches for New York's Twentysomethings (June, 2007) Overall, today's recent college graduates in New York are not making as much money as their parent's (sic) generation did, with men's wages falling substantially and earnings for women increasing slightly.
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