Realities of a Gender Pay Gap
Evelyn Murphy travels the country teaching women how to get paid as much as men.
The former lieutenant governor of Massachusetts said when she started working 40 years ago, women earned 59 cents on the dollar and they were told they lacked the education and experience men brought to the job.
“All that meritocracy stuff, that’s gone,” she now counsels young women. “If this were about merit, there shouldn’t be any wage gap.”
Murphy repeats this mantra again and again as president of the WAGE (Women Are Getting Even) Project, a national organization that aims to end wage discrimination against working women. The club holds meetings in roughly 200 locations around the country and the women who come to hear Murphy speak are both shocked and motivated by her message.
Source: abcnews.go.com
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