Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men & What to Do About It
Evelyn Murphy, with E.J. Graff. . Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, $24 (342pp) ISBN 978-0-7432-5466-3
More than 40 years after the Civil Rights Act prohibited gender bias in the workplace, women are still earning almost 25% less than comparably employed men. For Murphy, the reason why is obvious: persistent unintentional, and sometimes even intentional, discrimination. "Today's conventional wisdom about what causes the gender wage gap ignores anything that happens behind employers' doors," Murphy, who has a doctorate in economics and is a former lieutenant governor of Minnesota, points out. To open those doors, she examined scores of recent lawsuits, which provided her with more than 200 pages worth of stories and statistics guaranteed to convince even the most satisfied working woman that on-the-job discrimination is "still with us, and it's not going away on its own." Murphy, with the help of Graff, a senior correspondent for the
Reviewed on: 08/01/2005
Genre: Nonfiction
Paperback - 352 pages - 978-0-7432-9639-7