Social and political activist Gloria Steinem comments on pay equity.
Audio excerpt is from American Association of University Women (AAUW) Convention.
Social and political activist Gloria Steinem comments on pay equity.
Audio excerpt is from American Association of University Women (AAUW) Convention.
GLORIA STEINEM: What we additionally need to do is to look at the so-called pink collar ghettos at these fields of service work, clerical work, and so on that are almost totally female, where equal pay for equal work doesn't help because equal to whom? To the woman who's waiting on table next to you and who's poorly paid, too, where you know really need a kind of massive wave of organizing like the '30s to upgrade, and honor, and decently pay these female, mostly female professions.
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