Girls and Women - Our Country Needs You
I hadn't meant to write about this but enough stories came across my radar to make it worthwhile. There are two issues to consider about the U.S. female population. One is that women are STILL underpaid in this country. Do you remember this being an issue when you were in high school? I do and I am eons out of high school. And, apparently, Seattle has the worst gap (.73 cents versus the .77 cents nationally). Here's what some of our mayoral candidates said when asked about this at a recent debate (only Staadecker, Burgess and Harrell were asked). From the Stranger Slog : As it was, two out of three candidates flubbed their responses, hard .* Staadecker admitted that he didn't know the issue existed: "First of all, I will confess, I was not aware as a city that we were the worst in the United States. Therefore, if women aren’t being paid, if there’s a glass ceiling, that has to be through education and skills." Worse, Burgess said this: "We...