This month women will become the majority in the US workforce. Women are also the primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in 63% of U.S. families, according to the following article in Ms. Magazine. Having said that, women are still discriminated against in terms of wages, benefits, pensions and social security.
Perhaps as women become a larger and larger part of the workforce, they will use their collective voices to fix some of these discriminatory practices. Obama having a women's issues czar doesn't hurt, either.
Read more, here: http://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?ID=11995
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