How Robin Wright Negotiated Equal Pay on ‘House of Cards’
Yaaaaas! Props to Robin Wright for negotiating for what she’s worth.
Cyndi Lauper's 'Girls Just Want Equal Funds' Is the Feminist Anthem You Need
Yaaas! 💕💰
“I come home, in the morning light my mother says ‘why don’t you make the same as a guy.
Oh mama, dear, we’re not the fortunate ones, ’cause girls, they want equal funds.”
What gives? It’s called the “motherhood penalty,” and it’s a persistent problem for all women, not just mothers, working in America.
Mothers typically are paid only 73 cents for every dollar fathers are paid. Wait, it gets worse. After becoming fathers, men see a 6 percent *increase* in earnings — even after controlling for factors such as hours worked and marital status — while new mothers see a 4 percent *decrease* per child.
Sound fair? We didn’t think so.
At Work, Dads Get a Bonus, but Moms Get a Penalty. What Gives?
Sunday is Mother’s Day. But moms aren’t getting everything they deserve. Mothers typically are paid only 73 cents for every dollar fathers are paid.
Wait, it gets worse. After becoming fathers, men see a 6 percent *increase* in earnings — even after controlling for factors such as hours worked and marital status — while new mothers see a 4 percent *decrease* per child.
Sound fair? We didn’t think so.
What’s the Gender Pay Gap in Your State?
“Happy” Equal Pay Day! The gender pay gap exists in almost every congressional district. Find out how your state stacks up.
April 12 is Equal Pay Day.
Equal Pay Day marks the symbolic day when women’s pay finally “catches up” to men’s pay from the previous year.
You’ve probably heard that men are paid more than women are paid over their lifetimes. But what does that mean? Get the facts, and take action to close the gender pay gap. Every woman deserves equal pay!
Um, we wish. In the immortal words of Rihanna, #paymewhatyouoweme.
BREAKING: The gender pay gap has CLOSED! Oh wait…
We *wish* the pay gap were just a (bad) joke. Take action now.
This "Fair Pay" March Madness Bracket Is Absolutely Brilliant
Brilliant? We’ll take it! Here’s the only NCAA bracket you need.
Cheer for Equal Pay with Your NCAA Brackets
Nationally, women working full time in the United States typically are paid just 79 percent of what men are paid, a gap of 21 percent. With that in mind, we’ll be betting on the schools with the smallest gender pay gaps.
AAUW’s pay gap playoff brackets predict the victors of the women’s and men’s championships by calculating the gap between the mean earnings of female and male graduates 10 years after entry to college. The school whose graduates have a smaller gender pay gap advance to the next round.
How does your team fare in the fair-pay face-off? Take a look for yourself…
The Final Four in the women’s bracket is made up of two HBCUs — Alabama State and North Carolina A&T — as well as Albany and St. John’s, with the lowest earnings ratio of the four schools at 85 percent (Albany). Alabama State takes home the trophy with a 99 percent women’s earnings ratio compared to male graduates. The victory by the Lady Hornets reinforces AAUW’s findings of smaller pay gaps between women and men of color, since both race and gender clearly factor into the size of the pay gap.
Hampton University, one of the two historically black colleges in the men’s tournament, would be the champion based on it’s gender pay gap. Female graduates, on average, are paid 109 cents for every dollar male graduates are compensated. The Final Four would be made up of Florida Gulf Coast, Hampton, Temple and Virginia Commonwealth University.
Read more and see the full bracket.
Today is Asian American Women's Equal Pay Day. But We're Not Celebrating
It takes until March 15, 2016, for Asian American women to be paid as much as white men were paid in 2015 alone. Sound fair to you?
Gillian Anderson: I Was Offered Half Duchovny’s Pay for The X-Files Revival.
Thankfully, she’s a badass, and she negotiated for more. 💰💰 🙌💯
(Image via @notyourboss)
Chris Rock: If Jennifer Lawrence Were Black, 'She'd Really Have Something To Complain About'
Chris Rocks hits on an important fact: The gender pay gap affects all women, but it doesn’t affect all women equally.
Black women were paid 63 percent of what non-Hispanic white men were paid in 2014. That means it takes the typical black woman nearly seven extra months to be paid what the average white man took home back on December 31. That’s even worse than the national pay gap for women of all races, 79 percent, as reported by AAUW’s research.
Think about how that adds up in the course of a career, and we’re talking about losing a daunting chunk of change over a lifetime.