The “glass ceiling” has been shattered, but are women getting their fair share?
Half of all workers in the U.S. today are women, and for the first time a woman is the primary or co-breadwinner in two-thirds of American families. In spite of their numbers and influence, women still aren’t earning on the same level as men (women earn 77 cents on the dollar, compared with wages earned by men) and just 15 Fortune 500 companies were headed by women last year. Will companies and the government step into the breach to make sure women are getting their fair share in the workplace?
Half of all workers in the U.S. today are women, and for the first time a woman is the primary or co-breadwinner in two-thirds of American families. In spite of their numbers and influence, women still aren’t earning on the same level as men (women earn 77 cents on the dollar, compared with wages earned by men) and just 15 Fortune 500 companies were headed by women last year. Will companies and the government step into the breach to make sure women are getting their fair share in the workplace?
Guest:
Ann O’Leary, executive director of the Berkeley Center for Health, Economic & Family Security at the UC Berkeley School of Law; senior fellow at the Center for American Progress; and co-author of “The Shriver Report”
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
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