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Wyoming Women's Foundation ENews |
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Happy Holidays!
This holiday
season we are grateful to Rio Tinto Energy America (RTEA) for their
generous funding, making the WAGE Project a success in
November.
Heidi Lowe of RTEA and Richelle
We provided
workshops to over 120 individuals in five
different communities throughout Wyoming.
Over 40
individuals attended the "Train the Trainer" workshop,
enabling them to facilitate future workshops. This will help us
spread the word throughout Wyoming about the gender wage gap
and how it happens, educate attendees about benchmarking for a
competitive salary and negotiating for a competitive wage.
Workshops have been conducted at the University of Wyoming, Casper
College, BOCES in Evanston, Western States College in Rock
Springs, Gillette College, at a distance learning site in
Sheridan, and also at Kelly Walsh High School in Casper.
If you are interested to learn more, please do not hesitate to contact us
about having a workshop in your community!
Facilitator participants at BOCES in Evanston |
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WyWF Grants Over $75,000 |
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 The number of grant requests was up this grant cycle
and the grant requests doubled in dollar amount over last
year. We carefully considered our decisions on these
great applications. Great work is happening for women and
girls in Wyoming!
Boys and Girls Club of Park County,
Wyoming, Inc.
CLIMB Wyoming
Converse County
Coalition (CCCAFV/SA) Fina
Equality State
Policy Center
Girls Actively
Participating
Habitat For
Humanity of Laramie County
Needs, Inc.
Sheridan Housing
Action Committee
Shoshone and
Arapahoe Joint Business Council Head Start
Southwest Wyoming
Recovery Access Programs (SW-WRAP)
Uinta County Library Foundation
Volunteers of
America of Wyoming
Wyoming Family Home Ownership Pilot
Project
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Wyoming STILL Lowest in Nation for Women's Wages |
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 The new national (and state) Current Population Survey
wage disparity data have been released. Nationally, full-time, year-round
female workers earn 80.2% to that of their males counterparts.
Wyoming, is again the lowest
in the nation, at 61.8%. Look at the full report.
While the wage gap in Wyoming is based in part on the high wages
earned by those who work in the extractive industries, that is only a
small part of the story. While men in Wyoming typically earn at or above
average wages when working in typically male-dominated jobs, women in
Wyoming working in typically female-dominated jobs earn at or below
the national norms.
If the Wyoming economy can support average wages for some jobs, such as
those in mining, why can't our economy support average wages for other
jobs? Is there any reason why wages in the retail trade,
accommodations, and health and human services sectors of the economy that
employ predominantly women, are paid below the national norm? Data
shows that occupations such as preschool teachers, community and social
service workers, and retail sales workers all earn below the national
norms. In particular, Wyoming ranks in the bottom quintile of the
nation for the wages of nurses; further paralegals in Wyoming are paid
only 61% of the average rate in the nation, and office and administrative
support workers earn only 83% of the national norm.
This data does not begin to touch on other factors that impact men's
and women's workplace opportunities, such as little or no child or elder
care available or the availability of higher paying jobs.
The Department of Workforce Services has put together a wage gap study
group to address these issues, of which WyWF is a part. Stay tuned
for updates on the group's progress.
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Happy Holidays to
you and yours from the Wyoming Women's Foundation. We are grateful
to all of you who show your dedication to the women and girls of
Wyoming. This can be done in many different
ways including encouraging a young woman in a new or difficult
endeavor or by donating monies to WyWF to help us reach more
communities and individuals. The holidays are a wonderful time to
remember the people and ideals that matter the most to us. Thank
you for being part of our larger family, we couldn't do it without you.
 Richelle
Wyoming Women's
Foundation
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