For a select group of Catholics, the news most eagerly awaited from the conclave of cardinals gathering in Rome to elect a new pope is less about who that man is than how big.
These include: the fact that women and only women get pregnant and bear children, that women earn less than men, that they are subjected to sexual violence, have little or no access to publicly provided day care, and that they have less familial or political decision-making power than men.
"They are concerned that women are channeled to levels and positions that pay less than men with similar education and experience," Finberg said.
Being a woman, you know that women on average earn less than men, and that women's reluctance to negotiate could contribute to this differential.
The very premise seems to be that women value career less than men do, or that mothers don't want high-profile, challenging work.
In dollar terms, women made $10,404 less than men that year.
In EPA cases, plaintiffs have the burden of proof to show that women were paid less than men and that the work involved was "substantively equal".
For years councils have paid cleaners, dinner ladies and teaching assistants less than men for jobs that are now regarded as requiring similar skills.
Women exercise less than men -- and that could have consequences for their physical and mental health alike.
Family breakdown means that when a child is killed by the man of the house, that man is less likely than in the past to be their father.
In the introduction, he expresses the hope, however remote, that "women, no less than men, will recognize the appeal of tangible work that is straightforwardly useful".
