White House marks Women's History Month with 50-year progress report
Women's History Month began Tuesday, and the White House released the 'first comprehensive federal report on the status of women' since 1963.
Women seen at commencement at Fairfield University, in Fairfield, Conn. A long-term progress report on the status of women was released by the White House, Tuesday, to start off Women's History Month. The report states that while women are more likely to hold a degree than men, pay is still unequal.
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Young women in America are more likely than men to have a college degree, and women’s earnings constitute a growing share of household income, but their wages still lag significantly behind those of men with comparable education, according to a report on the status of women released Tuesday by the White House.
The White House released the report, which it called the “first comprehensive federal report on the status of women in almost 50 years,” on the first day of Women’s History Month.
It was 1963 when the Commission on Women, formed by President John F. Kennedy and chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, issued the first such report. That was the same year that “Dr. No,” the first James Bond film, was shown in US theaters, Iranian women got to vote for the first time, and Sheriff Eugene “Bull” Connor unleashed fire hoses and police dogs on African-American demonstrators in Birmingham, Ala.
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