To back up this claim, Murphy presents a methodical inventory of scores of successful lawsuits women workers filed against employers between 19 - and after reviewing her research, readers will be hard pressed to disagree with the author's conclusion that "sex discrimination is far more widespread and vastly more entrenched than anyone has recognized."įor women who've been counting on legal protections to assure their equal treatment in hiring, firing, compensation and promotion, reading Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men - and What To Do About It may be something of an eye-opener. Graff) argues that women aren't paid fairly because employers don't treat them fairly. An informative - and painstakingly documented - new book by former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts Evelyn Murphy (in collaboration with investigative journalist E.J. Despite evidence of systemic bias, even moderate and liberal experts continue to suggest the problem lies with women, not the workplace. For women who cut back their working hours to care for young children or needy family members, the potential earnings loss is even greater.įorty-three years after the Equal Pay Act was passed, economists and academics continue to debate the cause of women's earning inequality. For the rare woman who works continuously, full-time from the time she completes her education until retirement, those missing wages add up to a lifetime earnings loss ranging from $700,000 for low-wage workers to $2 million dollars for elite professionals.
Census Bureau found that in all but a handful of occupations - and at every level of the pay scale - women are paid less: from dishwashers and retail clerks to neurosurgeons and chief executives, women's paychecks are smaller than men's. Conservative analysts typically attribute earnings inequality to women's "lifestyle choices" (i.e., "reproductive roles") and argue that for younger workers, disparities between men's and women's pay have nearly disappeared. Like death and taxes, the gender wage gap is often taken as an unfortunate but inevitable condition we must simply learn to live with.
I f you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: in the U.S., women who work full-time earn only 77 cents for every full-time male dollar. Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men - and What To Do About It MMO Books: Getting Even by Evelyn Murphy with EJ Graff ResourcesĪnd reporting for mothers and others who think about social change.
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