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Title: Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Author: Carolyn B. Maloney
Narrator: Coleen Marlo
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-23-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, Politics
Publisher's Summary:
Why Women's Lives Aren't Getting Any Easier - and How We Can Make Real Progress for Ourselves and Our Daughters
As a young woman, Democratic congresswoman Carolyn Maloney asked her grandmother for career advice. She was shocked by the reply: "Get married." Though much has changed for women since then, more has remained the same. On a January night in 2008, Maloney and her daughter attended a Hillary Clinton rally in New Hampshire. Men in the audience held "Iron My Shirt" posters aloft. This small incident provoked outrage, but it provided an important peephole onto larger problems that women face today.
In her groundbreaking book Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated, congresswoman Maloney shatters the myths about how far we've come, highlighting how women's issues permeate every realm of society, and how political change has provided only a fraction of a solution.The former co-chair of the Women's Caucus, Maloney has access to a wealth of cutting-edge research that helps her illuminate how far behind we still fall on gender equality in issues from healthcare to educational opportunities, from poverty to reproductive freedom. It's a fact that women are working harder than ever, but they're still paid only three-quarters the salary of their male counterparts. She weaves this vital information with gripping stories of real women, making clear that she's not taking some abstract political position. She's talking about real people, real lives.Maloney also points the way forward, sharing inspiring tales of female activists who have managed to make a difference and presenting readers with "take action" guides that show all women practical ways they can help bring about change in their lives and the lives of others.
Members Reviews:
Great read!!
Great read! I like the fact that not only are key issues written about but we are given the information on how to get involved and make the change we seek. Because change has to occur at every level and with every woman.
Great New Book About the Lack of Progress for Women
As a first time reviewer on Amazon, I felt it was important to write about this one book. My wife encouraged me to read this, and was completely astounded by some of the facts in the book:
The wage gap - in 7 of 10 industries that employ more than 70 percent of women workers and managers, the wage gap between men and women managers actually GREW between 1995 and 2000! Women managers made 79.7 cents to a man's dollar in 2000, .7 percent less than they made in 1983!
Glass ceiling - The US Census reported that the percentage of women in executive management positions actually fell from 32 % in 1990 to 19 % in 2000.
Discrimination - If you drive your Mitsubishi to the airport after filling its tank at Sunoco, board a Boeing built plane for a United Airlines flight, use your Verizon cell phone to call your spouse before take off, then bit into a Krispy Kreme doughtnut, you've just enriched six household-name companies that have settled or lost sex discrimiation cases ans lawsuits in recnet years.
The American Dream - Even though women start small businesses at 4x the rate of men, and women owned businesses employ 19 million workers and generate 2.5 trillion in sales, the government thorough the Small Business Administration does nto support female owned businesses as they should.
