Getting Even
Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men--And What to Do About It
Chapter One: Introduction
Are you paid as much as a man would be if he had your job?
Most working women today, if they're over thirty, would probably blurt out, "No. A man would be getting more."
Their intuitive sense is borne out by the facts. Women working full-time -- not part-time, not on maternity leave, not as consultants -- still earn only 77 cents for every full-time male dollar. Very few individual women can ever find out exactly what their male counterparts would be making in the same job. But that yawning gap between the average male and average female paycheck is a pretty good clue that he'd be paid more.
If you're a woman, what would you do with that extra 23 cents -- an increase of nearly one third on top of your current 77-cent paycheck -- a raise that got you even with men?
The wage gap has been stalled for more than a decade. It exists between women and men working at every economic level, from waitresses to corporate lawyers, from nurse's aides to CEOs. Getting Even tackles the questions: Why are women's paychecks still ... read full excerpt from Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men--And What to Do about It ebook
