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Women's Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America Hardcover – January 1, 1999

by Diana Furchtgott-Roth (Author), Christine Stolba (Author), American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (Author),

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Are women victims? Or can they hold their own in the workplace? Whilst the popular belief is that women are systematically discriminated against, the authors of this work on women's economic progress in America show that in many areas of education and employment women have achieved equality.

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123 pages
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English
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UNKNO
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January 1, 1999
ISBN-10

0844741132
ISBN-13

978-0844741130
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ UNKNO; Subsequent edition (January 1, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 123 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0844741132
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0844741130
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.74 pounds

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Accuracy in the time of "narratives"

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Well written and supported by numerous charts and datasets, completely refuting the common narrative of legions of underpaid women in the workplace.a

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An inspiring and little-known true story!

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This video was an excellent dramatic piece showing women's critical contributions to NASA's space projects.

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The End of Math-challenged Media and Political Exploitation?

Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2012

Every year the Department of Labor reports average wages, male vs female, and those simple averages are leaped upon by drama-hungry news wogs as evidence of wage discrimination. But anyone capable of eighth-grade arithmetic should know that average pay does nothing but prove that a vast majority of women still choose jobs with flexibility for attending to family. This average pay statistic makes no attempt at a fair comparison of like jobs and work situations. This book, written by women, does the math and proves that when you compare apples to apples, there is NO SIGNIFICANT gender difference in compensation.

But that's too complicated for many people, especially when blinded by anecdotal evidence or personal prejudice (or when ideologues twist the truth to exploit ignorance and insecurity.)

I've been in corporate finance for over thirty-five years, and the real numbers I've seen, year after year, never have supported the nonsense reported in the drama-grubbing, math-challenged media. No large employer in its right mind would discriminate in this way for fear of a lawsuit. If women were only paid 75% of what men make, there'd be massive lawsuits. Human Resource Managers, eighty percent of whom are female, would be fired by the dozen. Thanks largely to a healthy system of tort laws, corporate management has fought like hell to make sure women are treated fairly.

The US is a leader in the industrial world in this effort, and media and political exploitation of that BLS statistic disrespects the hard-earned progress that's been made during my lifetime toward wage equality.

But every year, we'll hear average pay touted as though no progress has been made. Feminist organizations will rail about the "inequality", and make themselves look foolish..., feeding the popular conception of the math-challenged female.

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N. Mulcahy

Doctrinaire rubbish

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2006

Don't fall for this. The authors are conservative propagandists who engage in the kind of fake scholarship that the American Enterprise Institute and its ilk specializes in. Remember when you were first learning to write a term paper and the teacher said "don't make the facts fit your argument; your argument has to rest on the facts"? Well the authors were busy running for class president and missed that little lesson. In their world, there is no reason to worry about discrimination laws, or social security, or poverty relief because no-one is ever destitute, excluded or unable to get decent work. Anyone with a passing acquaintance with reality can recognise this for the class warfare that it really is.

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ConservativeMom

A positive message for women in the workplace

Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2012

This clear and insightful book is a must read for people who are trying to understand how women are faring in the workplace and whether federal programs are needed to help women succeed. Diana Furchtgott-Roth presents the facts and figures on women's employment and achievement in visual fashion that is easily understood. She shows us where women are achieving, and where their future growth is likely to come from. This book hits on global changes in women's work, and even takes a critical look at feminist organizations and whether or not their goals really help women. One of the author's basic points is that when women work the same jobs as men for the same amount of time, they earn basically the same salary. The wage gap is very limited. But feminists and many politicians view women as perpetual victims even in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary. Women don't need federal intervention, rather they need the government to get out of the way and let them succeed on their own terms and in their own time.

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Monty J. Heying

Blows the Myth of Gender Wage Disparity--FINALLY!

Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2007

Every year the Dept. of Labor statistic of average wages, male vs female, is touted, falsely, as evidence of wage discrimination. But average pay is a number clouded by the fact that a majority of women still choose jobs with flexibility for attending to family. The average pay statistic makes no attempt at a fair comparison--like job to like job. This book, written by women, does the math and proves that when you compare apples to apples, there is no signifcant gender difference in compensation.

I've been in corporate finance for 35 years, and the real numbers never have supported the nonsesnse reported in the media. No large employer in its right mind would discrimminate in this way. If women were only paid 75% of what men make, there'd be massive lawsuits, and HR manager firings would be in order. Thanks largely to a healthy system of tort laws, during my career corporate management has fought like hell to make sure women are treated fairly. The US is a leader in the industrial world in this effort.

But every year, we'll hear average pay touted as though no progress has been made in the past 40 years. Feminist organizations will rail about the "inequality", and make themselves look foolish..., feeding the popular conception of the math-challenged female.

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