It's #LaborDay.
▪Did you know that women comprise the majority of America's #minimumwage & #workingpoor workers?
▪Did you know K-12 teachers are 86% female & nearly all get working class pay despite degrees?
Read my investigation and pass it on.
damemagazine.com/2018/04/12/wom…
▪Did you know that women comprise the majority of America's #minimumwage & #workingpoor workers?
▪Did you know K-12 teachers are 86% female & nearly all get working class pay despite degrees?
Read my investigation and pass it on.
damemagazine.com/2018/04/12/wom…
Since the 2016 election male politicians have talked about America's working class as if it was white men when it is women of all races.
Trump and Bernie Sanders speak to the disaffected white male worker, but it is women doing low-paid labor.
#LaborDay
Trump and Bernie Sanders speak to the disaffected white male worker, but it is women doing low-paid labor.
#LaborDay
The Bureau of Labor Statistics and the US Census detail how even white collar professions like teacher, nurse, veteranarian, paralegal become low-wage jobs when they are "feminized" by becoming majority female professions.
#LaborDay
#LaborDay
By 2024, the Bureau of Labor Statistics asserts that one in four American jobs will be in the service industry and those low-paid jobs will be held almost exclusively by women.
Yet even teachers with masters degrees are making barely above min wage in many states.
#LaborDay
Yet even teachers with masters degrees are making barely above min wage in many states.
#LaborDay
The mythology built around who America's working class is keeps women in stagnant wages. It is only through demanding that politicians look at the real statistics that women will get their work recognized and move out of the cycle of poverty low-wages perpetuate.
#LaborDay
#LaborDay
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