Womenomics 101

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted March 16, 2006.

Life for women in the American workplace is far from paradise -- they face economic punishment for almost every aspect of their biology.

Women play a greater role in the American economy today than at any time since Rosie the riveter gave up making bombers for the baby boom after World War II, but American corporations -- enabled by a political class dominated by men -- continue to punish them for the high crime of being female.