Posted on 10/10/2005 6:58:31 AM PDT by bitt
A LIFETIME of hard work should bring economic security -- income sufficient to raise a family, and resources to enjoy a retirement earned over many working years. It is troubling that as far off as this goal seems to millions of American men, it is even further off for America's working women, especially in the area of retirement security.
Even as families become more dependent than ever on second incomes, and the number of women as sole providers grows, women still earn less money than men; women are less likely to have a pension than men; and women are less able to contribute to 401(k)s and similar self-funded plans than men
Women's status today as second-class economic citizens has deep roots. It wasn't until the early 1900s that the doors of opportunity began to open for American women. Pioneers like Mary Lyon, founder of Mt. Holyoke College, blazed pathways for girls in education. Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, founders of Hull House, started the settlement house movement and enabled thousands of women to find permanent and fulfilling employment as social workers. Our circles of opportunity grew wider still as working-class women formed unions to protect their coworkers in textile mills and other factories.
As unions fought for more organized work places, as America's men marched to war to fight Hitler and Imperial Japan, and as the postwar economic boom transformed our society, more and more women entered the US labor force. The doors of many more professions, including industrial workplaces, were opened to women. Stories like that of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, whose Stanford law degree was viewed by the 1950s legal establishment as an expensive ticket to the typing pool, but who earned a place on the nation's highest bench, became common.....
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"To achieve economic security, one should start with soaking some white raisins in gin..."
What an awful picture. I don't mean the subjects (that goes without saying), but the coloring is bad. Everything and everyone looks orange.
Not such a bad idea, actually. The only reason it now takes 2 incomes to raise a family is because women went to work to begin with. Simple supply and demand issue.
I sorry, who is teresa. Are we going to report on never-was's? how about some articles on kitty dukakis and walter mondale's wife. yeah!!!!
I didn't realize Sarah Parker is so tiny. What? 5 feet or so?
Theresa Heinz makes Ann Nicole Smith look like a class act!
Jimmy Kimmel used that digital "fattening/thining" software gizmo on his show recently
That would be great for animations of Teresa & Hillary over the last years
Look at Hillary's photo in 1992-1993
They use it on those bogus "instant diet result" TV ads - one of a couple is really fakeroo
I cannot believe anyone would willing submit to gain that much weight - then lose it - for bucks
Hollyweird actors do it - but they use drugs and excessive booze anyway
I believe I have heard estimates that Teresa Heinz is worth over 3.2 billion bucks - most protected in trust funds and foundations
She only pays 15% federal income taxes - and she and John-Boy selected the lower Massachussetts state income tax option rather than the voluntary higher state income tax rate
But then Barney Fwank said he did not trust the government to spend his state income taxes if he picked the optional higher tax rate
This has been up all day and nobody notices that the Ketchup Girl has very-publicly disassociated herself from the Ketchup Boy (who, BTW, served in Vietnam). I think that miss deserves a "just damn" all its own :-)
I think we have all seen she has 'just damned' him a long time ago...
She is very tiny.
She was a gymnast.
LOL!
Looks like Jessica got some
much needed cheeseburgers. ;o)
Yup -
A little <img src="" width="SAmeWidth" height="LessHigh" border="0" change can do that
mark - will learn someday!
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