LEHIGH ACRES FGCU softball team helps Habitat for Humanity build three homes The Florida Gulf Coast University softball team helped Habitat for Humanity build three homes Saturday.
ESTERO Home Base Golf Tournament helps SWFL Veterans Veterans hit the green at the Copperleaf Golf Course on Saturday. This was part of the Home Base golf tournament.
FORT MYERS At least one person dead after propane truck collides with golf cart Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a crash that has left one person dead and another injured Saturday morning.
Scattered storms ahead for your Saturday plans The Weather Authority is tracking weekend temperatures in the low to mid-90s this weekend with a chance for scattered storms this afternoon.
WINK NEWS SWFL Scoreboard: High School Football Week 3 Thunderstorms tried to put a stop to week three of high school football on Friday Night, but gridiron action prevailed.
Man accused of plotting murder-for-hire denied bond A man suspected of being involved with a murder-for-hire plot will stay behind bars. Ryan Toranzo had his renewed motion to set bond denied today in Collier County Court.
LABELLE Two dead after crash on State Road 80 According to the Florida Highway Patrol, there was a crash on State Road 80 that has left at least one person dead Friday evening.
DeSoto County looks to recruit more teachers While it can sometimes be easy to fill a classroom with students, it is not so easy for teachers. Schools across the nation and locally in Southwest Florida are still dealing with the challenges of teacher shortages. With class back in session, so is teacher recruiting for DeSoto County schools. The assistant superintendent, Jake Reynolds, […]
IMMOKALEE ROAD Push for change after deadly crash on Immokalee Rd. We’re told the woman was driving with two kids in the car when a semi ran a red light and hit her Thursday morning.
FORT MYERS BEACH Mobi-Mats deployed on Fort Myers Beach A walkway to paradise! Brand new and blue, the Mobi-Mat is making things easier for Fort Myers Beachgoers.
NAPLES Women of Steel business conference inspiring and empowering women Focused, hardworking, empowered. These women have made a name for themselves as Women of Steel.
NAPLES Beloved Collier County bus driver retires after 20 years After 20 years of getting kids to school safely, a beloved Collier County bus driver is retiring.
Wade Wilson has new death row mugshot Convicted double-killer Wade Wilson has a new death row mugshot.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA Sizzle Dining is back in SWFL It’s Sizzle Season! Local restaurants are ready to welcome new faces by offering exclusive menu deals to attract new customers.
LEHIGH ACRES FGCU softball team helps Habitat for Humanity build three homes The Florida Gulf Coast University softball team helped Habitat for Humanity build three homes Saturday.
ESTERO Home Base Golf Tournament helps SWFL Veterans Veterans hit the green at the Copperleaf Golf Course on Saturday. This was part of the Home Base golf tournament.
FORT MYERS At least one person dead after propane truck collides with golf cart Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a crash that has left one person dead and another injured Saturday morning.
Scattered storms ahead for your Saturday plans The Weather Authority is tracking weekend temperatures in the low to mid-90s this weekend with a chance for scattered storms this afternoon.
WINK NEWS SWFL Scoreboard: High School Football Week 3 Thunderstorms tried to put a stop to week three of high school football on Friday Night, but gridiron action prevailed.
Man accused of plotting murder-for-hire denied bond A man suspected of being involved with a murder-for-hire plot will stay behind bars. Ryan Toranzo had his renewed motion to set bond denied today in Collier County Court.
LABELLE Two dead after crash on State Road 80 According to the Florida Highway Patrol, there was a crash on State Road 80 that has left at least one person dead Friday evening.
DeSoto County looks to recruit more teachers While it can sometimes be easy to fill a classroom with students, it is not so easy for teachers. Schools across the nation and locally in Southwest Florida are still dealing with the challenges of teacher shortages. With class back in session, so is teacher recruiting for DeSoto County schools. The assistant superintendent, Jake Reynolds, […]
IMMOKALEE ROAD Push for change after deadly crash on Immokalee Rd. We’re told the woman was driving with two kids in the car when a semi ran a red light and hit her Thursday morning.
FORT MYERS BEACH Mobi-Mats deployed on Fort Myers Beach A walkway to paradise! Brand new and blue, the Mobi-Mat is making things easier for Fort Myers Beachgoers.
NAPLES Women of Steel business conference inspiring and empowering women Focused, hardworking, empowered. These women have made a name for themselves as Women of Steel.
NAPLES Beloved Collier County bus driver retires after 20 years After 20 years of getting kids to school safely, a beloved Collier County bus driver is retiring.
Wade Wilson has new death row mugshot Convicted double-killer Wade Wilson has a new death row mugshot.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA Sizzle Dining is back in SWFL It’s Sizzle Season! Local restaurants are ready to welcome new faces by offering exclusive menu deals to attract new customers.
The gender pay gap — the difference in earnings for women workers compared with their male colleagues — may be far worse than believed. A new analysis concludes that women earn 49 cents compared with every $1 men earn. Economists typically estimate that women earn 80 percent of men’s income, a figure that’s based on Census data for men and women who work full-time. But that doesn’t accurately reflect labor market reality for women, noted the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, which published the new analysis. IWPR said earlier studies leave out part-time workers and people who have taken time off from work, which is more common for women than men. Taking a longer-term view illustrates the actual experience of women, who over a 15-year period are more likely to shoulder the demands of child care than men, noted IWPR President Heidi Hartmann, a MacArthur “genius grant” recipient and an economist. More than four of 10 women step back from the workforce for at least a year — twice the rate of men. “Women don’t seem to feel the progress” “The longer I looked at it, the more important I realized it was,” Hartmann said. “If you say, ‘Oh well, there’s been a lot of progress in the last 20, 30, 40 years’ — but women don’t seem to feel the progress. For a woman, you can’t dismiss what happens over 10- to 15-year period.” The new study examined all workers who had at least one year of income from 2001 to 2015. That means the analysis is capturing workers who are in part-time jobs, who might have worked full-time but then left the job market because of layoffs or family obligations, or who have returned to school or gone into training. It’s clear that the labor market rewards both men and women for sticking with employment. The longer one is out of the job market, the bigger the pay penalty. Women who left the workforce for at least a year earned 39 percent less than women who never left. Men suffered the same 39 percent hit if they stepped away from work for a year. Yet because women are more likely to scale back their working hours or quit altogether, they’re likely to feel the brunt of that pay penalty more than men. Women leave the workforce due to family obligations far more than men. But that may reflect a rational economic choice within families because couples may decide it makes financial sense for the higher-earning spouse — typically the husband — to remain at work, Hartmann noted. Less optimistic than men The long-term experience of women in the labor market may explain why they’re less optimistic than men, she added. Nearly half of men said their financial situation improved in the past year, compared with 30 percent of women, a New York Times survey found earlier this year. “That accurate view of what she is able to get from the labor market to support her family and herself is what affects women’s jaundiced view about the economy,” Hartmann said. Women have made progress over the past several decades. The IWPR study found that earnings and labor participation have increased since the 1960s. But that growth has stalled, which Hartmann said suggests that despite women’s greater educational attainment and commitment to the workforce, new policies are needed. Paid parental leave, support for child care and other pro-family policies could help, she noted. “If the wages were fairer, we would get not only more women participating in the labor force, you’d get each women working more and earning more, and this would increase the GDP,” she said. “When people are underpaid for their skills, that would suggest we are losing GDP and productivity.”