Blog # 11
After searching through tons of research on Working Poor women one research PowerPoint stood out to me because it was very informative, structure, and showed what women are going through. This PowerPoint Presentation is by Mary Gatta, Ph. D. from Rutgers University at the Center for Women and Work. She addresses the statistics for women, what they are being paid, what the problems are and why they are the working poor of America and also helps suggest ways we can help.
In the United States women make up 46% of the workforce and 99% of all women will work at some point in their lives. Out of all of these women that are working: 2/3 of them are married, about 60.7% of them have children that are under 3 years old. 47% are on their own, 27% are single, and 20% are divorced. Even though women can and do work just as hard as men they are only earning about 74% of what men are working (PowerPoint, Gatta). How are these statistics just for equal rights in America? As shown through are readings over the past couple of weeks: women are the ones that take care of the children, women are the ones that work two jobs by going to work during the day and taking care of children at night, women struggle and juggle their lives and child care, women work just as hard as men if not harder so why are they being paid less?
In thought the government created the Equal Pay Act over 40 years ago the pay gap between men and women has only lessened by half. In the United States two out of three women are making less than $30,000 a year, 9 out of 10 are making less than $50,000, less than 2 percent of African American women are making more than $75,000, and 62% are making less than $25,000. The fact is that because women are not making the same amount as men they are 1/3 more like to be among the statistics of the Working Poor. This means that they are trying to get ahead, they are working full-time, but yet they can not make enough money to get out of poverty. For people that are stuck in this cycle they need to get education and training, but some times if not a lot they can not get the training that they need because of their child care needs, irregular work schedules, transportation, and little access (PowerPoint, Gatta).
Some ways in which we can implement programs to help working poor mothers get the education and training that they deserve are online classes which creates flexibly, saves money on child care, creates classes that were not accessibly before because of transportation, and gets rid of anxiety of going to class. Another program that is helping working poor mothers is the New Jersey Pilot Program which helps them get online learning. In this program each person that qualifies for it will get a computer, Internet, a printer, and class for a year. This program showed great success and some went on to other educational outlines such as college (PowerPoint, Gatta).
This was a great source of information and statistics on Working Poor women in the United States. It shows what the problems are, how women are being treated unfair with the pay gap, and what some people are doing about this to help them.
Power Point-
Mary Gatta Ph. D.:
http://www.etsliteracy.org/Media/Research/pdf/conf_achgapwomen_gatta.pdf
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