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Pelosi: 'Equal Pay for Equal Work is More Than a Slogan, It is Common Sense (402 words) |
 | Women pay equal taxes, women serve as CEOs of major corporations, and women sacrifice their lives in the line of battle. |
| Yet, 40 years after the Equal Pay Act was passed, women are still making 76 cents to every dollar a man makes in the same or comparable work. |
| We need action on this legislation to aid our working families and to prove to women that we respect and value their work. |
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EH.Net Encyclopedia: Hours of Work in U.S. History (6777 words) |
| Finally, Margo (2000) estimates that "on an economy-wide basis, it is probable that annual hours of work rose over the (nineteenth) century, by around 10 percent." He credits this rise to the shift out of agriculture, a decline in the seasonality of labor demand and reductions in annual periods of nonemployment. |
| Because of the decline in the length of the workweek and the declining portion of a lifetime that is spent in paid work (due largely to lengthening periods of education and retirement) the fraction of the typical American's lifetime devoted to work has become remarkably small. |
| Although the length of the workday is largely an economic decision arrived at by the interaction of the supply and demand for labor, advocates of shorter hours and foes of shorter hours have often argued the issue on moral grounds. |
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