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Greetings!
It's cold, but the holidays are over and the kids are back in school (unless they have a snow day). The effort to get more women in leadership positions, and elevate the value of care while strengthening the security of the nation's family caregivers, goes on. Current developments in this struggle highlighted below include......
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Beyoncé: Gender Equality is a Myth! - Excerpt from
The Shriver Report
 "We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change. Men have to demand that their wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters earn more-commensurate with their qualifications and not their gender. Equality will be achieved when men and women are granted equal pay and equal respect."
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Oh, The Irony...
"Results revealed that women are outperforming men, but they are not earning salaries or obtaining leadership roles commensurate with their higher levels of performance." In other words, women are over-performing, but remain under-represented and under-paid. Not really news to you, is it? Look at all the fabulous data in Benchmarking Women's Leadership in the United States, from the University of Denver, Colorado Women's College.
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Moms Settling for "Survival Mode"
Earning a living while caring for family is no walk in the park. It's harder in the US than other countries because the US, alone among industrialized nations, has no national paid maternity or paternity leave policy for new parents. If you haven't saved up, you're likely to quit your job altogether unless you are one of the 12% of US workers whose employers offer paid leave to care for family. Not just a problem for moms and their families, it's a problem for our national economy too. Bloomberg reports: "The lack of paid maternity leave is one reason the U.S. is falling behind other advanced countries in the share of women in the workforce, says Blau of Cornell in Ithaca, New York. The U.S. fell to 17th place in 2010 among 22 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development nations from sixth in 1990. In 2012, it slipped to 18th." |
Universal Pre-K Saves Taxpayers Money
 Better pre-K helps kids thrive in grade school and promotes family economic security. It also leads to higher incomes and better health, according to The American Prospect. "Those outcomes translate into high savings to taxpayers.... According to Heckman, Perry yielded taxpayers more than $16 for every $1 spent. No one could accuse Heckman, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago who won the Nobel Prize for his work applying statistics to economic relations, of being a softy. Rather than talking about right or wrong, he spoke of productivity and rates of return calculations. Specifically, he estimated that early education has a 10 percent rate of return, better, in most cases, than the stock market and other government programs. Investing in early education, he said, would both increase economic productivity and save on such costs as incarceration, police, and convict rehabilitation programs." So, there's that.
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