Women closing the pay gap. (Business).Women are bringing home the bacon bacon, flesh of hogs—especially from the sides, belly, or back—that has been preserved by being salted or pickled and then dried with or without wood smoke. these days. While men's wages have stagnated in the weak economy, women's earnings have continued to grow, giving an important lift to many families, economic experts say. The increases have closed the gap between men's and women's wages to the narrowest on record. Women's pay still lags behind men's in most sectors of the economy. Full-time full-time adj. Employed for or involving a standard number of hours of working time: a full-time administrative assistant. full female workers made 77.5 percent of what their male counterparts did last year, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. government statistics. In the previous eight years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time inequality inequality, in mathematics, statement that a mathematical expression is less than or greater than some other expression; an inequality is not as specific as an equation, but it does contain information about the expressions involved. had grown, to 76 percent in 2001 from 77.1 percent in 1993. The typical full-time female worker received a 5 percent raise in her weekly pay last year, while the median pay for a typical man rose only 1.3 percent. Women have benefited from the economy's shift toward the services sector. Millions of women work in government and health care, two of the only sections of the economy that have added workers since 2001. |
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