Women & Work
Types of Work
Percentage of Women in
Labor Force by Marital Status & Kids
Percentage of Women in Labor Force by Ethnicity/Race Historically
Women in the World Labor Force
The Gender/Race Wage Gap
The Wage Gap Over Time
The Gender/Wage Ratio
Average Women's Wage Loss
Average Wonen's Cumulative Wage Loss
Types of Work:
1. Wage Work
2. Reproductive/family labor
3. Informal labor
4. Community/volunteer labor
Women in the Paid Work Force
Notice change over time between single women, and married women with children.
Women & Race
Notice how the historical trend of "All women" most closely matches the experience of "white women." How do women of color differ historically?
The above figures reflect women in the full-time wage labor force. When we consider women "who are economically active," the numbers jump even higher. This is clear especially on the global level....
Why is the informal sector important?
Wage Labor and the Wage Gap
Link to NYT unemployment rates, Nov. 6, 2009
Average Wage Loss of Women compared to Men
Why might women make less than men? Any legal explanations?
Occupational Segregation? Women women choose different work?
Let's see how that plays out at lower-income levels....
And at higher-income levels....
Or to put it another way....
Ending with the good news....what kind of work is this? 
Ledbetter: restores paycheck accrual rule / each check is new act of discrim, file in 180 days
Factsheet on Paycheck Fairness Act:
- Facilitating Class Action Equal Pay Act Claims
- Improving Collection of Pay Information (race, sex, national origin) by the EEOC
- The Act prohibits employers from punishing employees for sharing salary information with their coworkers.
- Closing a Loophole in the Employer Defense
rev March 2010