by Ludi » Mon 25 Jan 2010, 20:16:55
I especially like this quote:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', ' ')The bubble of overpaid women and favorable laws that transfer wealth from men to women
Richest people in America:
1. Warren Buffet
2. Bill Gates
3. Sheldon Adelson
4. Larry Ellison
5. The Waltons
6. Sergey Brin
7. Larry Page
8. Charles & David Koch
9. Michael Dell
10. Paul Allen
11. Kirk Kerkorian
12. Steven Ballmer
13. Abigail Johnson
14. Carl Icahn
15. Mars Family
16. Jack C. Taylor
17. Donald Bren
18. Anne Cox Chambers
19. Michael Bloomberg
20. George Kaiser
Overpaid women:
"The ratio of women’s and men’s median annual earnings in 2008 was 77.1 for full-time, year-round workers, down from 77.8 in 2007.
(This means the gender wage gap is now 22.9 percent.) The annual earnings figure reflects gender differences in both hourly wages and
the number of hours worked each year by full-time workers. If part-time and part-year workers were included, the ratio would be much
lower, as women are more likely than men to work reduced schedules in order to manage child-rearing and other caregiving work.
Women’s real (inflation-adjusted) annual earnings fell 2.0 percent from 2007 to 2008, to $35,745, while men’s fell 1.0 percent, to
$46,367. With the exception of an uptick in 2007, this continues the multi-year decline in real wages experienced by both men and
Another measure of women’s earning ability – the ratio of women’s to men’s median weekly earnings, for full-time workers – was 79.9
in 2008, down from the historic high of 81.0 in 2005. The annual ratio, which includes self-employed workers, tends to be slightly lower
than the weekly ratio (which includes full-time workers who work only part of the year and excludes the self-employed), although the
two series exhibit the same general trend over the long term.
Progress in closing the gender earnings gap has slowed considerably since 1990, as measured by both data series. While the gender
earnings ratio for annual earnings increased by 11.4 percentage points from 1980 to 1990, it grew by only 5.5 percentage points over
the next 18 years."
http://www.iwpr.org/pdf/C350.pdf