It's not just UA
Lower pay for women seems to be the norm in the U.S. workforce. Just not as qualified as men, I guess.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A dramatic pay gap emerges between women and men in America the year after they graduate from college and widens over the ensuing decade, according to research released on Monday.
One year out of college, women working full time earn 80 percent of what men earn, according to the study by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation, based in Washington D.C.
Ten years later, women earn 69 percent as much as men earn, it said.
Even as the study accounted for such factors as the number of hours worked, occupations or parenthood, the gap persisted, researchers said.
PS -- In case you missed it, the headline is a reference to our item last week about the latest study on faculty pay at the University of Arkansas. The pay gap there between men and women is widening.
PPS -- Since satire is a little tricky (see all the outraged letters in the D-G about the joke letter complaining about how daylight savings time had been harmful on account of the extra sunlight), let me emphasize that my tongue was firmly in cheek when I suggested men deserved higher pay than women.
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To be painfully fair to this guy, I think you CAN say you "prosecuted" a case if you ran it and the result was a plea or settlement short of trial.
This doesn't excuse Attorneygate, of course.
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April 23, 2007 09:24 AM
Hey Max; What is the policy at the Times?? Care to share any stats??
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April 23, 2007 10:32 AM
Can't say the gender gap surprises me, but I would like to know why UA[f] faculty make more than their equally-qualified counterparts at UALR.
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April 23, 2007 11:50 AM
As Phyllis Schlafly proved a few months ago, women are 2nd class citizens in Arkansas and I guess the underlying message is for them to shut their yap and get back to work.
It would only seem right that women get paid less than men....2nd anything costs less and therefore apparently earns less. I'd sure be willing to cast my vote to change this situation. Just give me the chance.....that's all we need to pass the ERA amendment in Arkansas. Let's do it!
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April 23, 2007 12:04 PM
>Can't say the gender gap surprises me, but I would like to know why UA[f] faculty make more than their equally-qualified counterparts at UALR.<<
1)Let's see, they are closer to Hog fuball and therefore worth more.?
2)without political connections you don't get a job at UoA;
3) UoA requires you to be published
before promotions?
4)UoA has more Baptists on the payroll?
5) working in a larger city like Little Rock offers more opportunities for outside employment;
someone else can put in the other top 10 reasons.
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April 23, 2007 12:25 PM
No surprise to me. Just one more reason to smack those who yap on about how equality has been achieved and how we should just get over this inequality stuff.
Then there are these job realities: Why do waiters almost always earn more than waitresses? Why are men higher-paid chefs and women mere cooks? Why do men comprise the bulk of our overly paid school administrators? Why don't stay-at-home moms get some form of social security...the family is EVERYTHING, at least according to all the right wingers? And most of our department stores have men as managers and women as clerks...and on and on.
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April 23, 2007 01:53 PM
"Why do men comprise the bulk of our overly paid school administrators? "
Because most of the coaches are men.
Opus always wanted to know why do Bethsheba, Delilah, Eve, Cleopatra, Jessica Hahn, Monica Lewinsky, Debbie Murphy, Donna Rice, Christine Keeler, Mandy Rice-Davies, and all the Thelma Lous comprise the bulk of the forces who brought down great and powerful males and their kingdoms.
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April 23, 2007 04:41 PM
The administrators being former coaches explains why jocks are allowed to abuse everyone else with impunity, leading to school shootings.
Maybe former coaches should be barred from working as administrators. That could solve a whole host of problems right there.
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April 25, 2007 04:59 PM