the reason it is a majority of women at that low wage is that women earn 77 cents to the dollar that a man earns. Women are out of the workforce for a great part of their earning career because they are having the children and raising the children and taking care of their parents and their husband's parents. They are the caregivers. They are not in the workforce as long and they earn less, so they are at the very bottom. But it keeps them out of poverty; and to risk that that would not be there at all, it would throw the whole burden on their children.
Lynn C. Woolsey: “the reason it is a majority of women at that low wage is that women earn 77 cents to the dollar that a man earns. Women…”
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Discussing wage disparities and the impact on women in the workforce.
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