"Women do two-thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one-tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor."
-Barber B. Conable Jr., former president of World Bank.
Today is National Pay Equity Day. Remarkable, isn't it, that a person's employment value is still, in large part based not on the quality of their work but on the contents of their Fruit of the Looms.
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