Reinforcing the Glass Ceiling
The Equal Opportunity Survey was discontinued by the Labor Department last month. It's just one of the questionable civil rights stances the Bush Administration has taken, but some may not understand the impact. Marcia Greenberger tries to put it in perspective:
"Lest people think this only affects the employees at Halliburton or Boeing, it's a big loss for the more than one-fifth of the nation's workforce that is employed by companies that do business with the federal government. The administration's actions are particularly egregious because the most recent Census data confirm the intractability of the wage gap--women continue to earn only 77 percent of men's wages. Instead of addressing that wage gap, the Administration has decided to hobble its own ability to enforce the laws mandating equal pay for women."
"Lest people think this only affects the employees at Halliburton or Boeing, it's a big loss for the more than one-fifth of the nation's workforce that is employed by companies that do business with the federal government. The administration's actions are particularly egregious because the most recent Census data confirm the intractability of the wage gap--women continue to earn only 77 percent of men's wages. Instead of addressing that wage gap, the Administration has decided to hobble its own ability to enforce the laws mandating equal pay for women."
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