One reason for this, as The National Women’s Law Center found, is because women tend to be employed in jobs that don’t pay very well — more than three-quarters of the workers in the ten lowest-paying jobs are women. These women toil away at taking care of others’ children, cleaning houses and hotel rooms, ringing up sales at the cash register, and serving burgers and fries.
If you were legally separated, the situation would likely be different. In that case, "they would be considered two separate tax households, and her eligibility for coverage through his employer does not impact her eligibility for the premium tax credit," says Dania Palanker, senior counsel at the National Women's Law Center.
Naysayers claim it doesn't matter, because most minimum wage workers are teenagers working for gas money. Not so. Research by the National Women's Law Center shows the majority are adult women, many with two of these superb jobs. McDonald's and Visa even advise employees to get a second job in order to make ends meet on their low pay.
According to the National Women’s Law Center, American women who work full-time, year-round are paid only 77 cents for every dollar paid to their male counterparts. African-American women make only 62 cents, and Hispanic women only 54 cents, for every dollar earned by white, non-Hispanic men, according to center statistics.
The National Women’s Law Center recently released a report revealing that Utah ranks in 48th place in the national gender wage gap, and that women usually earn about 69 cents for each dollar earned by men. Smith thinks this may contribute to domestic violence.
If you were legally separated, the situation would likely be different. "They would be considered two separate tax households, and her eligibility for coverage through his employer does not impact her eligibility for the premium tax credit," says , senior counsel at the National Women's Law Center.
There was a quick response from the National Women’s Law Center, which recently did an in-depth study of gender rating among insurers. "We did the research and the fact is that women are charged more for health coverage simply because they are women," the center noted on its website. "Yes, women access more preventive services, as the commentators point out.
What do an investment banker, a railroad conductor, and a telephone operator all have in common? Sadly, the answer isn't funny—it's that women in all these positions have faced pregnancy discrimination.
Of single-parent households led by women, 92 percent have incomes below 400 percent of the federal poverty level, according to the National Women's Law Center. "Nearly 80 percent of all single-parent families are headed by women," adds Judy Waxman, NWLC vice president of health and reproductive rights. According to the U.S.
The era of warm and fuzzy-sounding abortion laws, though, may be behind us. The success they saw in 2011, and 2012—another unprecedented year for abortion restrictions—have galvanized pro-lifers to undo a set of rights that they had previously left well enough alone: exceptions for victims of rape and incest.
