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		<title>This is the Year to Close the Wage Gap</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2012/04/this-is-the-year-to-close-the-wage-gap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, April 17 is Equal Pay Day, again. Equal Pay Day 2009 was impetus for my starting this blog. That day I dropped my son at school; at my request he was wearing red – one of the ways activists observe the day. As he was filing into class, I turned to a group of mothers and noted how proud I was he was helping me observe the event. The women, including several who work outside the home, had never heard of the gender wage gap. I was shocked and thought to myself, “Hello ladies, you need to know this!” A blog was born. Back then, women earned, on average, just 77 cents for every dollar a man earned. Today women earn 77.4 cents. The current gap translates into $10,784 less per year in median earnings, and for women of color, the gap is even greater. African-American women earn, on average, 62 cents, and Hispanic women earn, on average 54 cents, for every dollar men earn. I can understand why some of my neighbors may not have been aware of the gap three years ago. For starters, women typically don’t talk about salaries. It’s frowned upon in the workplace and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If I Were Santa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I were Santa, I&#8217;d be making my list and checking it twice. And here are the gifts I would give: For Our Daughters: The gift of self-esteem and positive role models The mass media perpetuates a message that women and girls’ value comes from beauty and sexuality – and it affects us. Sixty-five percent of women and girls have an eating disorder. Eighty percent of the op-ed pages are dominated by men. The number of women in senior management positions globally has gone from 24 to 20 percent from 2004 to 2009. For Corporate America: More women in leadership positions There is a large, and growing, body of research connecting women at the tops of organizations to a strong bottom line performance. However, women comprise 53 percent of new hires, but only 37 percent of managers, 26 percent of vice-presidents, and just 14 percent of executive committees. &#160; For Working Mothers: Flexible work arrangements &#8230; and a day of rest The life of a working mother is challenging. Flexible work arrangements give parents the ability to work more flexibly and better manage the challenges of work and family. For Working Families: Passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Ways to Honor Betty Ford&#8217;s Legacy</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/07/three-ways-to-honor-betty-fords-legacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Funeral services begin today for former First Lady Betty Ford who passed away Friday at the age of 93. Here are three ways we can honor Ford&#8217;s incredible legacy. 1. Support the Equal Rights Amendment. Ford was a supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment. She marched and rallied in support of the amendment which still has not been ratified. The Equal Rights Amendment was written in 1923 and took 49 years to pass Congress but it was never ratified because not enough states supported it and Congress sets a time limit for ratification. Last month Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney and Senator Robert Menendez re-introduced the Equal Rights Amendment. As Maloney said in a press release, “The Equal Rights Amendment is still needed because the only way for women to achieve permanent equality in the U.S. is to write it into the constitution.  Making women’s equality a constitutional right—after Congress passes and 38 states ratify the ERA—would place the United States on record, albeit more than 200 years late, that women are fully equal in the eyes of the law.” Urge your representatives to support the bill. 2. Support the Paycheck Fairness Act. Ford was also a supporter of equal pay, an issue she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Need the Paycheck Fairness Act</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/06/why-we-need-the-paycheck-fairness-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, at my second job post-college, my friend and coworker asked me to share my salary. I said no, but she persisted. We were both about to have salary reviews and she argued we had no way to benchmark our raises if we had no idea what others in the firm were getting paid. It made sense, so we snuck into the stairwell of our office building to swap data in secrecy &#8211;we were under the impression we could be fired for sharing our pay. It turns out she was paid $1000 more annually than me. So while in reality our salaries were practically the same, at the time it seemed like a big deal. She gloated. I pouted. And I vowed never to share salary information again – nothing good could come from it. Not true. A new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) titled, “Pay Secrecy and Wage Discrimination,” discusses how pay transparency might reduce the gender wage gap. Today, women earn, on average, 23 percent less than men. And 40 percent of pay inequity can be attributed to pay discrimination.* But with approximately half of all workers in the United States contractually forbidden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Wal-Mart Ruling Means for Women</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/06/what-wal-mart-ruling-means-for-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I kept quiet when my coworker came into my office to fix my heater and told me, “I can keep you warm.” I ignored it when the guys in the warehouse whistled when I went to the soda machine near the loading dock. (I did ask HR to take down the sign on the vending machine someone had posted that said, “I am owed .69 cents.”) I merely scowled at the warehouse worker who asked me to step aside when I was lifting boxes one day. “I’m working here Sweetie,” he said. I didn’t complain the time one of my coworkers took a pocketknife out of my hands while I was dismantling a tradeshow display. “Girls shouldn’t use knives. They could get hurt,” he said. But I gloated when he sliced his finger a few minutes later. I did comment when one of the salesmen sent me flowers for Secretary’s Day – I was a Vice President. But the CEO and HR Director told me they just didn’t see any issue. I felt defeated after another sales guy told me how I could touch him, and used hand gestures to illustrate his point. I left when he was promoted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Equal Pay Day, Let&#8217;s Try This Again</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/04/its-equal-pay-day-lets-try-this-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Equal Pay Day&#8230;.again. Equal Pay Day is the day we note women earn less than men for similar work. The day is always observed on a Tuesday in April because women would need to work a week plus two more days, or a year plus three more months, to earn what men earn. According to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau, women earn, on average, just .78 cents for every dollar a man earns. And for women of color, the gap is much greater. The Equal Pay Act was signed in  1963 and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was signed in 2009. Clearly, they are not enough. If we don&#8217;t take action, the gap won&#8217;t close for thirty more years- and even then there are no guarantees. The good news today is that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand vowed to push for passage of  the Paycheck Fairness Act, along with Senator Mikulski. Gillibrand writes at the Huffington Post that the Paycheck Fairness Act, &#8220;would prohibit employers from retaliating against workers for sharing salary information with their co-workers. The legislation would also establish training groups to help women strengthen their negotiation skills, enforce equal pay laws for federal contractors, and require the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Political Review (Slideshow)</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2010/12/2010-politics-in-pictures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a look back at just a few of the political stories we were talking about in 2010. What do you think 2011 will bring?]]></description>
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		<title>Women’s Progress in Executive Suite Flat Fifth Year in a Row</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2010/12/womens-progress-in-executive-suite-flat-fifth-year-in-a-row/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Stop me if you think that you&#8217;ve heard this one before.   Women have made no gains in the corporate boardroom or the executive suite in the last year. Nor have women increased their presence among companies&#8217; top earners, according to the 2010 Catalyst Census: Fortune 500 Women Board Directors and the 2010 Catalyst Census: Fortune 500 Women Executive Officers and Top Earners released yesterday. According to the report, Women held just 15.7 percent of board seats in 2010 rep resenting a mere 0.5 percentage points above 2009. Women held only 14.4 percent of executive officer positions, up from 13.5 percent in 2009. And as far as earning the big bucks, in 2010, women executive officers held only 7.6 percent of the top earner positions, up from 6.3 percent in 2009. And progress was flat as far as the number of companies with no women serving on the board of directors (more than 10 percent) and the number of companies with no women executive officers. This is the fifth year women&#8217;s progress has remained flat. This is what we are talking about when we refer to the glass ceiling. Women still face both obvious and subtle barriers on their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And so the wage gap continues&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2010/11/and-so-the-wage-gap-continues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s review: White women earn just .77 cents , on average, for every dollar a man earns. Black women earn, on average, just .61 cents for every dollar a man earns. Latina women earn, on average, just .52 cents for every dollar a man earns. (Source:  The Institute for Women&#8217;s Policy Research Compilation of Current Population Survey Labor Force Statistics, 2009)                   Over the course of a lifetime, this gap adds up to: $700,000 for a high school graduate $1.2 million for a college graduate $2 million for a professional school graduate. (Source: National Committee on Pay Equity) There are more women on the national payroll then men. The typical American wife brings home 42.2 percent of her household’s earnings. Two-thirds of all American households have a woman breadwinner (either full or partial). Twenty-five percent of wives were earn more than their husbands. There is no available data as to how these facts break down across Democratic or Republican women. But that didn&#8217;t stop the mostly white, male Republican Senators from turning the wage gap into a partisan issue. Yesterday the Senate voted 58-41 against allowing debate on the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill designed to strengthen the Lilly Ledbetter Act [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking: Paycheck Fairness Act Fails</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2010/11/breaking-paycheck-fairness-act-fails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The vote on the Senate floor this morning regarding the Paycheck Fairness Act failed 58-41. We will have more on this later. In the meantime, you can read the immediate reaction here and and see how your Senator voted here.]]></description>
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