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The Decline of America: The Decline of the U.S. Womens' Movement


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Women's average wage as a percentage of men's average wage,
                        1986-91:(14)
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             WOMEN'S                   WOMEN'S
COUNTRY       WAGES   COUNTRY           WAGES

Iceland        91     Belgium            75
Australia      88     Norway             75
Denmark        83     UNITED STATES      74
France         82     Germany            73
New Zealand    81     Czechoslovakia     70
Sweden         81     United Kingdom     70
Italy          80     Switzerland        67
Kenya          80     Greece             65
Austria        78     Luxembourg         63
Netherlands    77     Canada             63
Finland        76     Ireland            62
Portugal       76     Japan              50

Sources: International Labor Organization, Yearbook of Labor Statistics
1989-90 (Geneva ILO, 1990), pp. 757-65; United Nations Development
Programme, Human Development Report (New York Oxford University Press,
1991), p. 179: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

From page 111 of:

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_We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New    
World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.   

New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.   
$10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2  
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    "America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.   
    This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The   
    facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But   
    ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation."   

                        -Robert B. Reich, author of The Work of Nations