"As women, we have tremendous power. We control both sides of the cash register. We are the cashiers on one side and we are the customers on the other side. If we join hands across the cash register, we can change the economic future of women in America."

-- Susan Philips, Vice President, United Food and Commercial Workers

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Press:

"Bipartisan effort could save program cut by Bureau of Labor Statistics"
Dallas Morning News
January 24, 2005
By Linda Basch and Robin Bartlett
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"What Women Want: A Rebuttal to the Times"
AlterNet
October 3, 2005
By Linda Basch, Ilene Lang, and Deborah Merrill-Sands
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"Opting to Reframe: What Women Really Want"
Bay Area BusinessWoman News
November 2005
By Linda Basch, Ilene Lang, and Deborah Merrill-Sands
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Reports:

"Women Opting Out? Debunking the Myth"
Heather Boushey, Center for Economic and Policy Research
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"Women's Economic Status in the States: Wide Disparities by Race, Ethnicity and Region"
Institute for Women's Policy Research
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"The American Woman Series"
Women's Research and Education Institute
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"Working Women Speak Out"
Business and Professional Women
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"Tracking the Progress of Women in Non-traditional Employment"
Institute for Women and Work, Cornell University
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"The Impact and Influence of Women’s Business Centers in the United States"
Mary Godwyn, PhD; Nan Langowitz, DBA; Norean Sharpe, PhD
Babson College
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"Minimum Wage and Working Women"
Compiled by: Eileen Appelbaum, Rutgers University; Jared Bernstein, Economic Policy Institute; Janet Currie, University of California Los Angeles; Heidi Hartmann, Institute for Women's Policy Research; Lawrence Katz, Harvard University; Ann Markusen, University of Minnesota; Edward Montgomery, University of Maryland; Steven Raphael, University of California Berkeley; Cecilia Rouse, Princeton University
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Websites:

The Wage Project
Evelyn Murphy’s 2005 book, Getting Even: Why Women Don’t get Paid Like Men and What to do About It, is accompanied by this website of resources for women workers, lawyers, educators, advocates, and others interested.
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• American Association of University Women
• Business and Professional Women
• Center for Policy Alternatives
• Center for Women and Work, Rutgers University
• Center for Women Policy Studies
• Girls Incorporated
• Institute for Women's Policy Research
• Institute for Women and Work, Cornell University
• International Association for Feminist Economics
• Legal Momentum
• National Women's Law Center
• Wellesley Centers for Women
• Women's Education and Research Institute
• Women Employed Institute