PAY EQUITY/ECONOMIC SUFFICIENCY: Women today represent 50% of our nation’s workforce. To achieve economic self-sufficiency, they need:

• Equal pay for equal work
• Equitable promotion and benefit compensation
• A living wage
• Affordable child care
• Elimination of the motherhood penalty
• Adequate income for retirement

The last action ( April 7, 2014) on PA House Bill 1890.PA SB 1212 amending the action of December 17, 1959 P.L. 1913, No. 694), known as the Equal Pay Law was a resolution to “discharge committee from further consideration of this bill.

CHILDCARE
Center for American Progress http://www.americanprogress.org/

• Real Family Values: Child Care and Early Childhood Education

GENDER WAGE GAP
The Keystone Research Center http://keystoneresearch.org/

• The State of Women in the Pennsylvania Workforce (October 24, 2008) http://keystoneresearch.org/publications/research/state-women-pennsylvania-workforce-2008

Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) http://www.iwpr.org/

• The Gender Wage Gap by Occupation2013 and by Race and Ethnicity April 2014 #C414
• How Equal Pay for Working Women Would Reduce Poverty and Grow the American Economy January 2014 #C411
• Separate and Not Equal? Gender Segregation in the Labor Market and the Gender Wage Gap September 2010 #C377
• Pay Secrecy and Wage Discrimination January 2014 #Q016

PA Commission for Women

• The Status of Pennsylvania Women Report 2009

Catalyst http://www.catalyst.org/

• Catalyst Quick Take: Women’s Earnings and Income. New York: Catalyst, 2014. http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/womens-earnings-and-income

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Current Population Survey

• Highlights of Women’s Earnings in 2012, Report 1045 (October 2013) http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswom2012.pdf Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
  • Table 39 Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by detailed occupation and sex http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat39.htm
  • Table 37 Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by selected characteristics http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat37.htm
• Women in the Labor Force: A Databook, Report 1040 (February 2013) http://www.bls.gov/cps/wlf-databook-2012.pdf

Women’s Way (Philadelphia) http://womensway.org/

• A Change of Pace report 2008 http://womensway.org/sites/womensway.org/files/2008_a_change_of_pace.pdf

The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink. January 11, 2014. Book/Kindle only. A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink asks—and answers—big questions. Why are millions of women financially vulnerable when others have made such great progress? Why are millions of women struggling to make ends meet even though they are hard at work? What is it about our nation—government, business, family, and even women themselves—that drives women to the financial brink? And what is at stake?

National Committee on Pay Equity http://www.pay-equity.org/

• Myth Busting the Pay Gap http://social.dol.gov/blog/myth-busting-the-pay-gap/

MOTHERHOOD PENALTY

• Society for Human Resource Management
  • ‘Motherhood Gap’ Explains Differences in Gender Wages (October 14, 2010) http://www.shrm.org/hrdisciplines/compensation/articles/pages/motherhoodgap.aspx
• Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood Penalty?, Shelley J. Correll, Stephen Benard, and In Pak, Cornell University. American Journal of Sociology Volume 112 No. 5, 2007 http://www.jstor.org/stable/full/10.1086/511799

RETIREMENT

Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER) http://www.wiserwomen.org/

How Can Women’s Income Last as Long as They do? June 2009 Report https://www.wiserwomen.org/images/imagefiles/wiserRoundtableRptFinalRev3.pdf

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