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...Donnell felt in her job as one of the primary obstacles facing secretaries in their drive for recognition. "Women office workers felt they weren't being treated with respect on the job and that they weren't valued at their true worth to a company. They tended to be underpaid--not given opportunities for promotion or advancement--and had a lack of knowledge about their legal rights," Snyder says...
...Economic discrimination is blatant in this country," Jung said as she listed reasons to support the ERA. "Women have been ghettoized in underpaid, underrated, female-type jobs," she added...
...inmates, it routinely held up to 1,200, and the close confinement helped make fights and homosexual rape everyday occurances. In an investigation completed last month State Attorney General Jeff Bingaman also concluded that the prison was sorely understaffed. Moreover, the report found that the guards were underpaid, poorly trained and badly supervised. The situation, the report said, amounted to "playing Russian roulette with the lives of in mates, staff and the public...
...person, these small-city mayors feel overworked and underpaid...
...Harvard at times seems authoritarian and unresponsive, Boston University is incomparably worse. Student publications have been censored and closed down, faculty members have been grossly underpaid, and the administration has been markedly uncooperative and intransigent throughout the bargaining process. The latest incident--which finally prompted the faculty to strike--was the trustees' refusal to ratify a contract that their own negotiators had already agreed upon...