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Women's Equality Day: How equal are women in 2016?
In many ways, its great to be a woman living in 2016. Today, more women are educated, celebrated and making change. In Rio, U.S. women outpaced men, taking home more Olympic medals than their male counterparts 61 to be exact. A woman is even running for president. Today, 104 women hold seats in U.S. Congress. When Rep. Marcy Kaptur first came to Congress in 1983, the Ohio Democrat was one of only 24 women in the House and Senate. In 2013, a record 98 women 20 in the Senate and 78 in the House dramatically raised that number in the 113th Congress.
"Women bring a breadth of experience that will be important to the work of every committee," said Kaptur during that monumental year. "They bring life experience and perceptions that have been missing here. I hope the operations of Congress will change and be more productive and less contentious."
Not only are women holding more positions of power, but in some cases they are being well paid.
This year, we saw Amazon go against the norm when the company said a review of its entire U.S. staff, including warehouse workers, found that womens compensation in 2015 was 99.9% of mens in equivalent jobs. Further, minorities make 100.1% of what white workers earn, Amazon said. Amazon pays women 99.9% what it pays men
But, the fight for gender equality still has a long way to go. This week, Forbes magazine illustrated the pay disparity.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/08/26/womens-equality-day-how-equal-women-2016/89396664/
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SunSeeker
(51,557 posts)While fighting to earn an equal pay, women are also under constant pressure to look perfect. Body shaming is an all too common term. And, its not just from Hollywood. This summer, Golds Gym posted a photo of a pear saying This is no shape for a girl.
Fashion is also a sticky situation, where women can be persecuted for wearing too little or in the most recent case of burkinis, wearing too much.