Once upon a time, not very long ago, our mothers (sisters, aunts, cousins and ourselves) brought forth on this continent a new notion, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that when it comes to earning a paycheck, all women were created equal to men.
So how’s that going for you?
In fact, women’s wages are significantly lower than men’s at 77 cents to the dollar.
Working America, the community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, wants to know what it’s like to be a working woman in America this election year. Today, we launch our 6th Ask a Working Woman survey online at www.askaworkingwoman.com.
Tell us how much time you have for yourself – and what you do when you need time off to take care of a sick child or an elderly parent.
Let us know whether you think your male coworker in the cubicle next to yours is making more money than you for the same work and whether you think operating in a working environment built for your father’s schedule really works out for you.
Most importantly, tell us what you need – health care, pension benefits, flex time – to make this juggling act that is working womanhood a little bit easier for you.
Then we’ll crunch the data into survey results on June 24, and we’ll pass what working women have to say along to the politicians with the power to make it better.
The last time we asked, we heard from 22,000 women. This year, we expect to continue the tradition – begun in 1997 – of collecting one of the largest datasets available about what working women need and want from the political powers that be and the ones to come.
The survey is open to all and will be available on line at until June 20 at www.askaworkingwoman.com or http://aaww.questionpro.com/ .
Contact: Sarah Massey 202-445-1169
