Thursday, September 18, 2008
Now You're Working for Free
Mary Cornish and Fay Faraday remind us that from today, September 17, to the end of the year, women are working for free. We are 71% of the way through the year, and a woman makes 71 cents to every dollar a man in equal work makes.
Read their article on gender-based pay discrimination in the Toronto Star:
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/500415
See ACTEW's resource, Women in the Canadian Labour Market, for further facts and statistics on women's work patterns, with wage and income comparisons:
http://www.actew.org/projects/pwpsite/snapshots/canadian_women.html
Read their article on gender-based pay discrimination in the Toronto Star:
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/500415
See ACTEW's resource, Women in the Canadian Labour Market, for further facts and statistics on women's work patterns, with wage and income comparisons:
http://www.actew.org/projects/pwpsite/snapshots/canadian_women.html
Labels: Issues_and_Trends, Resources_and_Research
