From the Women and Girls Foundation:
Did you know that southwestern Pennsylvania has one of the most dramatic wage gaps in the country?Nationally, women make 80 cents for every dollar that a man earns. In Pennsylvania, women earn 73 cents per dollar. In southwestern Pennsylvania, women only earn 69 cents for every dollar that a man makes.
We will work for equality...will you?
Join us for an Equal Pay Rally and make your voice heard!April 25 - Noon - Market Square
Women and Girls Foundation
http://www.wgfpa.org/
This year's speakers (in order of appearance) are:
Cecile Springer Board Member, Women & Girls Foundation
Ayana Ledford Exec. Dir. of PROGRESS @ CMU Heinz School
Tiona Jones Ellis student, PROGRESS intern, Teen Council leader/Reign of Aquaria game
Monica Shaw High School Student, Teen Council leader/Reign of Aquaria game
Rich Fitzgerald Pres., Allegheny County Council
Vivien Luk Gtr Pgh Non-Profit Partnership
Magdeline E. Jensen Executive Director, YWCA
Susan Nitzberg Incoming Pres., Nat'l. Council of Jewish Women
Esther Bush Exec. Dir., Urban League
Heide Tappe Representative for State Rep. Chelsa Wagner
Sen. Jim Ferlo State Senator
Jeanne Clark Representative of NOW
La'Tasha Mayes Representative, New Voices Pittsburgh
Betsy Magley Chair, PA Commission For Women
Karen Myres Representative, Executive Women's Council
Ed Gainey Representative for Mayor Ravenstahl
Doug Shields President, Pgh. City Council
Bill Peduto Pittsburgh City Council member
Rose Bonesso Working America
Frances M. Wright Pres., SWPA Coalition of Labor Union Women
Kim Ellis Activist
Sara Radelet Executive Director, New Hazlett Theater
Vanessa German Poet, artist, activist
Sala Udin Executive Director CORO
Deborah Lyles Student representative, Chatham University
Liz Rincon Executive Director, PA League of Young Voters
Celeste Taylor Rep. Black Political Empowerment Project
Joanne Quinn Smith President Nat'l Assn. Bus. Women (NAWBO)
Heather Arnet Executive Director, Women & Girls Foundation
ALSO:
The Women and Girls Foundation invites you to join them today through Thursday, (April 24th), in Market Square, from Noon to 1:00 PM. They will be raising awareness about the need to wipe out the wage gap once and for all.
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Did you know that southwestern Pennsylvania has one of the most dramatic wage gaps in the country?
ReplyDeleteThose statistics are false. They take the AVERAGE pay for women and compare the average pay for men. When you compare wages between the sexes for the SAME jobs then women are paid the same as men.
I smell a "Women are victims" agenda.
WRONG:
ReplyDeleteFor years, women have outnumbered men on college campuses. Overall, they get better grades than men. And yet, just months after they toss their mortarboards into the air at college graduation, men start to pull ahead of women in pay.
Though the pay gap between men and women is well documented, it is startling to discover that it begins so soon. According to a new study by the American Association of University Women, women already earn 20 percent less than men at the same level and in the same field one year after college graduation. Right at the beginning, before taking time off for childbirth or child-rearing, women find themselves behind.