http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2004/nf20041018_8340_db013.htm
WORKFORCE REVOLUTION. In many ways it's still a man's world when it comes to the in the division of labor. And women struggle disproportionately to balance work and raise a family, let alone battle the glass ceiling and unequal pay policies.
Nevertheless, the labor-force participation rate among women with children is around 72%, up from 47% in 1975. Employers value educated workers in the New Economy, and that increasingly means women. They have been the majority of college students since 1979, and according to the Census Bureau, 56% of college students today are female.
"Since education is a key determinant of earnings, the income of women will rise relative to that of men, and the proportion of women with earnings greater than those of their spouse or potential spouse will also increase to unprecedented levels," writes Richard B. Freeman, a Harvard University labor economist, in The Feminization of Work in the USA: A New Era of (Man)Kind?
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well lookie here:
"battle the glass ceiling and unequal pay policies"
Newsweek appears to agree with my comments.
You're right. A lot of people have no idea what the person in the next office makes. They'd be shocked if they knew. In my last job somebody got ahold of a list of salaries, ran off hundreds of copies, and stuck them in everybody's mailbox. We almost had a class action discrimination suit. The situation was addressed fast.
"And women struggle disproportionately to balance work and raise a family"
I'm sure there are no men on FR who balance work and raising a family. Must be "woman's work". </sarcasm>