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Women’s Equality Day – What the heck do I tell my daughter?

Posted August 26th, 2011 by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Today is Women’s Equality Day. At the center of my mind today is:

What the heck do I tell my daughter?

- How do I tell my daughter about the fact that despite many gains made for women’s (and mothers’) equality, women still don’t earn equal pay for equal work? Women now make, on average, only 77 cents for every dollar that men make for full-time work.

Not equal.

- How do I tell my daughter that there’s rampant hiring and pay discrimination against mothers? While overall women make 77 cents to every man’s dollar, women without children make 90 cents to a man’s dollar, mothers make 73 cents, and single mothers make only 60 cents to a man’s dollar. Women of color experience increased wage hits

Read more: http://www.momsrising.org/blog/womens-equality-day-what-the-heck-do-i-tell-my-daughter/#ixzz1W9H1MAfX