![]() ![]() Rather it is the cumulative effect of this difference for every hour worked over a woman’s life. This gap isn’t simply the difference between the average wage of a woman versus that of a man. Getting Even explores a pervasive gender-based wage gap. ![]() ( Getting Even, pg 9) The combination is powerful and engaging. In Getting Even Murphy adds a social scientist’s posture by leveraging research and analysis on workplace behavior to more fully shape her argument for gender-based wage discrimination. Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics. Murphy shares that one of her motivations for writing the book is rooted in the incomplete messages about women’s wages that are fueled by statistics from the U.S. This same objectivity about ‘measurement’ and the conclusions we draw from it served as a backdrop to Summer Book Review #29, “Getting Even: Why Women Don’t Get Paid Like Men – And What To Do About It,” by Evelyn Murphy, former Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of MA, with E.J. My dinner companion was pointing out, “does this phone call make the physician a high quality one?’ ![]() In theory the doctor could outreach to me to remind me to come in if my son’s name made the list. Today my son’s pediatrician can run a report to see which of her patients missed their last immunization cycle. ![]() ‘Just because we can measure it doesn’t make it meaningful,’ shared a female physician at a dinner recently. ![]()
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