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Women’s History Month: Looking at the History of
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Mark the year 2059 on your calendar—that’s when data shows that women will
finally achieve equal pay to their male counterparts. It’s hard to believe that
closing the gender wage gap will take nearly a century after the Equal Pay Act
was passed in 1963. In 1960, women only earned about 61 cents for every $1
that a man took home, a number that ticked up to 82 cents by 2018—but that
still leaves another 18 cents to go overall. The wage gap is worse for women of
color: Among women working full-time jobs in the U.S., Black women are paid
62 cents, Native American women 57 cents, and Latinas 54 cents for every
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dollar paid to white men, according to the National Partnership for Women &
Families.
Researchers blame the gender wage gap on a variety of reasons, ranging from
differences in the industries women and men work in, racist hiring and
discriminatory promotion practices, discrepancies in hours worked, job
segregation, and years of experience. The government also does little to create
policies making workplaces and institutions like schools more supportive of SR 18 blocked due to
women. Systemic discrimination against working women in the U.S. has put rollover collision of semi-
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them at a severe disadvantage since before the founding of the country. The
colonies enacted laws that prevented women workers from maintaining control
over their earnings as far back as 1769. A lack of suffrage prevented women
from voting for politicians who could bring forth more equitable policies until
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1920. Wage codes from the National Recovery Administration, established in
1933, set lower minimum wages for women than for men, even though they
were performing the same work. To top it off, women continue to endure sexual
harassment and assault in the workplace and take on the “second shift” of 10-vehicle collision
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Despite these struggles, women have managed to achieve plenty of success in
their careers, becoming Fortune 500 CEOs and going to space. Stacker looked at
research from news outlets (Time, The New York Times, U.S. News & World
Report, Entrepreneur), think tanks (McKinsey, the Brookings Institution),
government agencies (the U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Labor, Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission, National Park Service), and
Dynamic new talk show
organizations that focus on women’s rights (Time’s Up, Planned Parenthood) to
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learn about the history of women in the workplace. The resulting timeline Hall’ will premiere with a
shows both the challenges and triumphs of women climbing the corporate party this Saturday, Mar.
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ladder and fighting for equity along the way.Click through to learn more about
American women in the workplace, from 1765 to today.

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The Daughters of Liberty, the country’s earliest society of working women, was
formed in 1765. They went on to demonstrate against the Stamp and
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The 13 colonies adopted English laws that prevented female workers from AUBURN WEATHER
keeping the income they earned in 1769. The system also banned women from
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1776: Abigail Adams promotes gender equality