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"I learned a lot about things I had no idea about," says Marina Hanna, a Mount St. Vincent freshman who attended the workshop. "I thought (the wage gap) was a tired statistic but now I understand that it's really a problem these days and I think the only way for women to fix it is to be aware of what's going on."
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“I see it in all my workshops,” says Annie Houle, the national director of the WAGE Project, which runs negotiation trainings on college campuses around the country. “Women are too timid to equate their worth in dollars.”
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Wage Gap Is Stuck
Once again the gender wage gap remains statistically unchanged in the last year. Women's earnings were 76.5 percent of men's in 2012, compared to 77.0 percent in 2011, according to Census statistics released September 17..., 2013 based on the median earnings of all full-time, year-round workers. In 2012 men's earnings were $49,398 and women's were $37,791, a difference of $11,607.
In 2012, the earnings of African American women were $33,885, 68.6 percent of all men's earnings, a slight decrease from 69.5 percent in 2011, and Latinas' earnings were $28,424, 57.5 percent of all men's earnings, a decrease from 60.2 percent in 2011. Asian American women's earnings of $45,586 were 92 percent of all men's earnings, an increase from 84.8 percent in 2011. The National Committee on Pay Equity's The Wage Gap Over Time shows how little the wage gap has changed in this century.
While occupational choice is said to account for some of this gap, studies continue to show women earning less than men in the same occupations. A report by Guidestar USA, made public September 16, 2013, shows women earning significantly less than men at nonprofit organizations, as reported by David Cay Johnston. Johnston's message to married men: "Your working wives are getting shorted on pay and that means your family has less money than it should."
The Institute for Women's Policy Research issued a new wage gap fact sheet, noting that most women working today will not see equal pay during their working lives. "If the pace of change in the annual earnings ratio continues at the same rate as it has since 1960, it will take another 45 years, until 2058, for men and women to reach parity."
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Valerie Pare attended the event because, for her, the practice will be put into use soon.
“I expect to have to go through these sort of negotiations in the near future so I came hoping to gain skills in that area,” Pare said. “The workshop gave me some concrete negotiation dialogue to work with.”
" As of December, women continue to hold more jobs on payrolls than ever before, and have regained all the jobs they lost during the recession."
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"Millennial women can get involved by letting their representatives know they want legislation that addresses wage parity for men and women. Additionally, one of the most powerful things young women can do for their own negotiations is to organize with their peers before and after taking a job, so they can know compare notes and know if they are being underpaid."
