The
Equal Rights
Amendment
is an
Issue of Human Life
For Women
who are Poor
Poverty is a daily issue
of life for many women and children.
79% of the poor
people in the U.S. are women and children.
More than 8 million
American families are headed by women, yet 33% of those households
are below the poverty level, compared to 6% of those headed
by men.
In 1977, the median
income of families headed by women was $7,765; the median income
of families headed by men was $14,538.
Full-time working
women today earn only 59 cents for every dollar earned by full-time
working men.
Minority women are
hardest hit, with black and Hispanic women at the bottom of
the national wage scale.
Women work for the
same reason as men: economic need. Yet they are still seen
as a “marginal” work force – those who earn the “second” salaries
in families.
For every dollar
earned by men, women in the same job category earn much less:
|
Women |
|
Men |
| Sales..................... |
$ .45 |
|
$1.00 |
| Clerical.................. |
$ .64 |
|
$1.00 |
| Service.................. |
$ .65 |
|
$1.00 |
| Manufacturing....... |
$ .59 |
|
$1.00 |
THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT
will provide a constitutional commitment to equal pay for equal work
and equal employment opportunity. Discrimination today can be profitable.
The Equal Rights Amendment will help take the profit out of discrimination.
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“Choose life that you
and your children may live . . . “ - Deut. 30:19 |
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