America’s war on women

When Katharine Graham became CEO of the Washington Post Company in 1972, Congress had just ratified the Equal Rights Amendment, and hopes were high that a wave of women would finally shatter the glass ceiling..

50 years later, women occupy just over 29% of chief executive roles in the US, but they are largely relegated to running small and medium-sized enterprises.  Within the Fortune 500, the percentage of women CEO’s remains in single digits.

It is, however, not just C-level jobs in which women are under-represented.  They still represent less than half of Managers in more industries than not.

And women make less for the same work. Fortune 500 female CEO’s earn, on average, 74% of what their male counterparts take home, and wage inequity carries through to the bottom of the labor pyramid. Part-time female workers earn 40% less than their male counterparts, and full-time female workers earn 53% less.

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But the inequality does not end there. Over 18 million American adults alive today were raised in single-parent households… of which 74% are still female-headed.

And two-thirds of of single-parent households receive no child support.

All of which explains why Women food stamp recipients outnumber Male recipients almost 2-to-1.

At a time when abortion is no longer a guaranteed right in every state, forcing a woman to carry a child to full term is only one more aspect of America’s war on women.