CPSY 428 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Industrial Revolution, Advantageous, Prudential Financial
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The earnings gap (decreasing) is between women with children and men. Economically single women without children have long held their own with men. Equal pay act of 1963, equal opportunity commission: helped women and minorities move in the direction of equal pay for equal work. The vast majority of women are not in the glamorous professions. Work world for women is much the same as it is for most men: 8am-5pm. More women are physicians, lawyers, corporate executives, and managers than ever before. The reality is that most women and men will not achieve lofty occupational positions. Despite this, women are breaking through to high positions in corporate america. Percentage of management, professional and related positions held by women rose from 26% in 1980 to 51%in 2010. Hewlett-packard hired a woman as a president and ceo making it the first dow 30 company headed by a woman. Bank of america, deloiette, discovery communications, ernst & young, general mills, kpmg,
