In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.
How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
All a lot of women see are dollar signs.
A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.
When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.
The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that - from '80 to '85.
Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men.
When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.
If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.
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