Let’s hear it for the girls
How’s this for a depressing headline: “Women in PA won’t get equal pay until 2072?”* When I officially entered the workforce, women were making 56.6% of what men earned, the lowest it had been in the preceding 13 years. As of 2013, that differential is up to 78.3%. Progress, granted, although not always steady. The fact that it will have taken a full 100 years plus nine for the first equal pay act—The Equal Pay Act of 1963—to achieve reality is beyond sad. And it Read more