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Article: Valuing 'Women's Work'.(EDITORIAL)
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- April 15, 2003
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There's a silver lining in the cloud over the economy: Female wage earners brought home 77 cents for every dollar earned by men compared with 76 cents the year before. That's a notable, even if small, gain in an economy handing out more pink slips than promotions.
Since 1979, the first year of comparable earnings data, women's wages have steadily increased while men's wages remained relatively stable. The high-tech boom in the '90s saw similar gains for both women and men, but - and this is important - women's wages overall have consistently lagged behind men's by about 25 percent.
With a stagnant economy, that gap may continue to close even more. While ...