Tuesday, September 25th, 2012
Stephan: In addition to the financial aspects this inability on the part of American society to recognize the fundamental equality of women once again tells us that we place bias above facts. The money, in this sense, is just how the bias is counted.
Those societies with the most neurons firing on their behalf as a proportion of their total population prosper. Those with proportionally the least neurons firing -- because some social policy or bias keeps a large part of the population off the field, and out of the game, suffer and fail. This is what has eaten away from the inside the Arab-Persian Islamic world, the most extreme example of this principle.
Click through to see a chart listing the ten worst Congressional districts.
Women are earning less than men in 97 percent of Congressional districts, the National Partnership for Women and Families has calculated. That means that only 13 members of Congress have the privilege of representing an area where women are out-earning or making equal pay to men.
Nationally, women make just 77 cents to a man’s dollar on average, but in some districts, that number is as low as 61 cents:
The gender pay gap manifests itself in several ways. Some dispute the top-line average, claiming that women make choices about the amount they work and the type of work they pursue, which limits their earning power. But these ‘choices
