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United States: Women workers organise to be more than a cheaper pair of hands

Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2012-03-18
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<span class="date-display-single">Sun, 18/03/2012</span> </div>
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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/4185">Jenny Brown</a></span></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image">
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<p>Women workers in the United States are attacking low pay and bias from many angles, assailing wage laws that exclude them, suing over outright discrimination and trying to organise unions. </p>
<p>And they’ve been confronting the disrespect that accompanies smaller paychecks.</p>
<p>The pay gap between men and women in the US actually shrank in 2011. Women now average 82.2% of men’s earnings ― but the numbers don’t indicate progress because all workers lost buying power.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/50405" target="_blank">read more</a></p>