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These lost earnings professors, accountants, business owners sion (EEOC) information about employee could be used for house payments, car or even secretaries — now it’s software compensation, by job category, sex, race [email protected] payments, tuition, doctor bills, new shoes, engineers, scientists and CEOs of major and ethnicity. braces, food on the table — you name it. companies. The political tactic is like President Progress has been made. But think of Occupational segregation of women in Clinton’s “Don’t ask. Don’t tell” maneuver. In 1963, the Equal Pay Act was signed all the time in the bottle that has been the workforce remains one of the most Or asking if a tree falls in the forest and into law. Back then, women earned only 59 consumed by efforts to eliminate the pay salient features of the U.S. Labor market no one is there to hear it, does it make a cents for every dollar a man earned. inequities women workers experience. If and it is a major cause of the women’s sound? More than 50 years have passed. Call you were a woman of childbearing age wage gap. Only by dealing with both issues The Trump version goes like this: If me impatient, but it seems like 50-plus in 1963 (when the Equal Pay Act became can you deal with either. the government doesn’t ask companies for years ought to have been enough time to law), you or a friend now may have grown The Institute for Women’s Policy data by job category, sex, race and ethnic- close and end the wage disparity associat- daughters who are now raising daughters Research reports women made substantial ity, and if companies don’t disclose data ed with women’s wages. But, no, it wasn’t. of their own. They are a single generation inroads into predominantly male occupa- to government that reveals a pattern and The latest study from The Women’s among multiple generations of women tions in the ’70s and ’80s. But progress practice of occupational segregation and Policy Research Institute reports: “In most that suffered disparagement of their worth completely stalled following the mid-’90s. wage discrimination, will the government cases, women, in comparison to men, earn and value because of their gender. That No significant milestones have been made know whether companies practice occu- about 82 percent of the amount a man ancestral tree of dissed females probably toward closing the wage gap since 2007. pational segregation and wage discrimina- grosses, based on a full-time weekly pay includes Millennials’ thrice-great-granny, The American Association of Univer- tion? The answer seems obvious but not scale.” The earning disparity is greater their twice-great-granny, their great-gran- sity Women warns that if the pace of to Ivanka. She demurred without protest for women of color. Says the report, “… ny, just plain granny and their own mom. change remains what it was between 1960 to the administration’s decision to stop black women earn about 68 percent of That’s a lot of greats who didn’t merit and 2015, women won’t reach pay equity collecting data. what white men typically make, while the benefit of fair and equitable pay as with men until 2059. Said she: “The proposed policy would Latino women earn 62 percent compared compared to what the menfolk earned in Worse, if yesteryear’s glacial progress not yield the intended results.” Then to white men.” occupations historically denied to women. further stalls going forward, women’s pay silence. The numbers in Florida are similar, Jobs deemed suitable only for women equity with men will not be reached until It was Ivanka’s brief but spectacular although slightly better overall. Women narrowed their opportunity and excluded 2152. Ye gods. moment of abandoning working women who hold a year-round, full-time job make them from occupations requiring large So, enter Ivanka Trump. She is a senior and the pay equity they deserve. ■ 87 cents for every dollar made by men. numbers of workers. Wise men “mans- adviser to and daughter of President Black, Hispanic and Asian women work- plained” this away as necessary and appro- Trump. She embraced the cause of pay — Leslie Lilly is a native Florid- ing full-time and year-round do more priate. equity early on in her father’s admin- ian who writes frequently on issues poorly. For every dollar made by men, Women did not have the stamina, istration and took to the national stage of politics, public policy, and philan- they make 61 cents, 60 cents and 79 cents, strength, temperament, intellectual capac- on behalf of its support. She declared, thropy, earning national recognition for respectively. ity, skills and/or qualifications. They had “Women deserve equal pay for equal her leadership in the charitable sector. The cumulative effect of the wage dis- babies, meals to cook, houses to clean and work.” Even the liberals cheered. Email her at [email protected] parity is significant.