Women Gaining in Education But Stalled on Pay, Federal Report Finds

[Bloodshot Scott]

First Comprehensive Federal Report on Women's Status in Almost 50 Years Released

21 comments By JAKE TAPPER, ANN COMPTON, and SUNLEN MILLER
WASHINGTON, March 1, 2011

American women are making real gains, especially in college and graduate education, but they continue to lag behind men in pay, according to a report released today by the White House that administration officials say will be used as a basis for policy changes.


The White House released the report, "Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being," to kick off Women's History Month. It was described as a "statistical portrait" showing how women are faring in the country today and how their roles have changed over time.

Administration officials acknowledged that there is nothing new to these reports -- compiled from reports that were already available to the public -- but said that the compilation of the findings shows something important for women and families that will influence the president's policies.

"The story is really looking at all of this together, to show how women's lives around children and family is changing," White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett said on a conference call today with reporters.

She did not mention any specific policy changes that would be made, but said that the findings of the report will be addressed.

"It helps inform our policy decisions because we've got to realize that we've got to encourage women to go into higher-paying fields and be educating in a way that is going to lead to higher paying jobs," Jarrett said. "And so if you look at it in the totality, I think it will inform a wide variety of different policies and programs the federal government will initiate and continue, but it will be evidence-based."

The White House said the report serves as a guidepost to move forward, by enhancing the administration's understanding of how far women have come and what remains to be done.

General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor at the Office of Management and Budget Preeta Bansal said that they will persue this "evidence based policy making" approach now with "an all government and all agency approach to address the special issues effecting women."

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[PlasmaTwa2]

This is so sexist. You don't see the government coming out with a report on how men are becoming better househusbands and yet still trail women in respect.

 

[~~whimsy~~]

Because sooner or later that woman will end up pregnant and sap up maternity leave with pay and insurance. Companies are only thinking of the bigger picture. :tongue:

 

[TheOrangeCat]

Well .... here goes for another ass-kicking from Alisa and Cutie

Once you've deducted all the downtime from:

PMS
PMT
Pregnancy
Child related 'emergencies'
Gossiping
'Toilet breaks' for gossip and makeup
Chocolate breaks
Crying in the toilet about boyfriends
Being late from lunch after shopping, gossiping, crying about boyfriends
Being a bitch

The pay scales seem about right.

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

For every dollar a man makes, a woman makes seventy cents. That doesn't make sense and that's not fair; the man is only left with thirty.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Eh, all they have to do is spread their legs. Well, not all women are so lucky, but I've definitely known a number in my time:

 

[TheOrangeCat]

Eh, all they have to do is spread their legs. Well, not all women are so lucky, but I've definitely known a number in my time:

Classic!

 

[D-rock]

Even if somehow it could be discounted that women are much less physically capable to do many jobs that pay more because they are less desirable because of their physical demands there is still one overriding factor that will be against women and will always be against them, THEY CAN GET PREGNANT. You can't take all that potential time that they might get off and expect equality in some workplaces. Even if society changes where men are willing to look after their non-adult children while their partner works there is still the fact that women are the ones that have to physically bear the pregnancy, and potentially take time off for that or have other complications it creates in a workplace like the time taken off, finding a replacement, training the replacement, and the potential added medical cost among others.

It might be somewhat harsh, but I think a business has a right to take that potential into account when it hires people or moves them up into positions of higher authority. I suppose if a women is willing to sign a legally binding affidavit that states she will not get pregnant during her working at a business and if she does she is allowed to be immediately fired or demoted because of it then it might be a different story, and I would find that suitable to a business giving them equality under that.

It might be unfair, but that's not a business' or society's fault. It's natures fault.

Still in any type of non-executive, non very high management type of position I have never experienced where a women that has as much seniority, does the job as well as the men, does it as quickly, and does the same job the men do was ever paid less. The whole thing about women getting paid less is more of a myth or at least a distortion taken out of context by ignoring the fact a lot of women are unable or unwilling to do the jobs that men do that pay more, and of course like I stated above about how the fact they can get pregnant when a man doesn't effect things. A lot of things that try and make it seem that women earn less than men try to make it out like they are being treated unfairly for doing the same thing under the same conditions when it’s rarely the case.