Released: December 16, 2012

How to attack the gender wage gap? Speak up

Source: Jessica Bennett - The N.Y. Times (Paid Registration)

Annie Houle, grandmother of seven, holds up a stack of pink dollar bills. Ms. Houle is the national director of a group called the WAGE Project, which aims to close the gender pay gap. She explains that her dollar bills represent the amounts that women will make relative to men, on average, once they enter the work force.

Line them up next to a real dollar, and the difference is stark: 77 cents for white women; 69 cents for black women. The final dollar — so small that it can fit in a coin purse, represents 57 cents, for Latina women. On a campus that is two-thirds women, many have heard these numbers before. Yet holding them up next to one another is sobering.

 

 

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