stephs birthdays tomorrrrrrrow! ok, but anyways. im just sorta getting info and find usefull websites and have been putting them in my daily blogs and all that..so now im gonna go back on the websites and maybe find some more interesting things and post themThe Equity Pay Act was established in 1963 in order to attempt to mend the difference in salaries earned between men and women. It was put into place in order to protect workers against discrimination in the workplace based on their sex, race, color, national origin, religion, ethnicity, and/or disability. More than forty years after this act was put into place, and it still has not cured our nation's wage gap. In 2001, women earned only 73.4% of men's salaries.http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/the-wage-gap-between-men-and-women-807497.htm l" target="_blank">by 1920, 17 states had minimum wage lawswomen working full time made 59 cents to a full-time working man's one dollar -- 1964women-77 cents to a full-time working man's dollar--2005A high school graduate loses $700,000. A young woman who graduated from high school last spring and went straight to work would, over her lifetime, make $700,000 less than the young man who graduated next in line.A college graduate loses $1.2 million. A young woman who graduated from college last spring and went right to work would, over her lifetime, make $1.2 million less than the young man who received his diploma next to her.A professional school graduate loses $2 million. A young woman who got a degree in business, medicine, or law would, over her lifetime, make $2 million less than the young man at her side.SEX DISCRIMINATION -pretty muchhttp://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/10/09/the_wage_gap/http://www.ers.dol.govt.nz/pay/minimum.htmlfactories and business usually hired kids because theyre dumb enought to get low paybusinesses thought you should pay someone for how experienced and good at they were doing
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