Labor & Employment Law

Take the 2010 Ask a Working Woman Survey

By James Parks

The Great Recession has hit American workers in the gut?unemployment is up, jobs are scarce, foreclosures are occurring at record rates and health care costs are skyrocketing. Even if you are working, wages are stagnant and many seniors will have to work past retirement age just to pay bills.

In this brutal economy, what is on the minds of today?s working women?  

The AFL-CIO?s community affiliate, Working America, is providing a chance to share those concerns through the just-launched online 2010 Ask a Working Woman survey. The biennial survey enables working women to share workplace concerns.

Click here to take the survey. The Ask a Working Woman survey runs through the end of July. 

More than 12,000 women responded to the survey in 2008, when they said the top item that would make their lives easier is a 10 percent raise. While issues such as affordable health care and quality child care were major concerns for working women, paying the bills, buying the groceries, filling the gas tank and paying the rent and mortgage were the concerns women said worried them the most.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on July 14, 2010 (boomark / email).