New IWPR Gender Wage Gap 2010 fact sheet

Re-post from the Institute for Women's Policy Research:

IWPR just updated their  Gender Wage Gap factsheet with the 2010 annual earnings figures: http://www.iwpr.org/publications/pubs/the-gender-wage-gap-2010/at_download/file

It dramatically illustrates the decline in progress on the gender wage gap: it narrowed by over ten percentage points between 1981 and 1990, by close to 4 percentage points between 1991 and 2000, and by less than one percentage point in this last decade, 2001 to 2010. The factsheet includes real earnings, and gender wage gap between women of different race/ethnic backgrounds and white males.

The ratio of women‟s and men‟s median annual earnings was 77.4 for full-time/year-round workers in 2010, essentially unchanged from 77.0 in 2009.

Fwd: FINAL REPORT: Dialogue for Women in Blue-Collar Transportation Careers

Thank you for your participation in the national on-line dialogue focused on Women in Blue Collar Transportation Related Careers hosted over the summer. 

In total, the Dialogue for Women in Blue-Collar Transportation Careers included 178 individual participants, who collectively offered 49 unique ideas, 143 comments, and 614 votes.  Participants also appeared to represent a broad range of transportation careers.

Click here for the Final Report which outlines the following themes that surfaced throughout our four week online discussion.

·         Theme One:  Conduct outreach and awareness targeted for young women and girls about blue-collar transportation careers.

• Theme Two:  Introduce skills training for women in blue collar transportation careers.
• Theme Three:  Create a healthy and respectful work environment that recognizes women in transportation industry.
• Theme Four: Coordinate efforts across the transportation industry.

We have closed the IdeaScale site for the dialogue, but we will keep our Women in Blue-Collar Transportation Careers web page up to date. Bookmark and keep an eye on http://www.dot.gov/wg/blueCollar.html! We'd also like to invite you to stay connected – subscribe to updates about this initiative by signing up at https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDOT/subscriber/new?topic_id=USDOT_56

We look forward to continuing the dialogue!