Parts 1,2, and 3 of this series looked at the ways the economic system is set up to the detriment of female workers. Pay equity issues affect not only individual wage-earners, but the community as a whole.
I wish that I had the answers, but I am just a working woman dealing with the consequences. I do know that there are several current relevant pieces of legislation: the Fair Pay Restoration Act, the Paycheck Fairness Act, and the Fair Pay Act.
I also know that every year since 1923 the Equal Rights Amendment goes in front of the congress—and almost every year Congress manages to simply ignore it, but maybe the time has come to pass it. In 1848, Mott and Stanton wrote, and I believe: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.”
(Editor's note: Some helpful links in the info box. Oh, and about those local solutions? Learn more about the YWCA Women's Economic Empowerment Center, which we're launching this year with help from the Women's Fund and other local supporters. Visit: www.ywca.org/rockcounty and go to economic empowerment under Programs.)
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