harelb@cabot.dartmouth.edu (Harel Barzilai) (06/13/91)
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T h e p r i c e o f p r e j u d i c e
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Some things don't get better with age. A new report issued by the
Washington, D.C.-based Older Women's League (OWL) has found that women
continue to be segregated in the workplace. The report found that
younger women -- despite being raised in a climate of change --
continue to hold nearly as many traditional female jobs as older
women. It also found that the gap between the wages paid to women and
men is likely to grow with age. _Paying for Prejudice: A Report on
Midlife and Older Women In America's Labor Force_ concludes that the
ultimate consequence of such pervasive workplace segregation and
discrimination will be disproportionate poverty for midlife and older
women. OWL is also urging members of Congress and the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission to eliminate wage and age
discrimination. contact OWL at (202) 371-1999
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H e r e ' s t h e b e e f
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Thanks to a new streamlined beef-inspection system at slaughterhouses
across the country, diseased meat is entering the market at an
alarming pace, according to the _Multinational Monitor_. The U.s.
Department of Agriculture plan, designed to increase speed, relies on
beef-company employees to perform the majority of inspections and
restricts government inspectors to spot checks on the processing line.
In an open letter sent to Congress in March, some 21 whistle-blowing
federal inspectors cite the acceptance of meat infected with measles
and tapeworms and an eightfold increase in head contamination, whose
meat goes into products like ground beef. Also noted are "carcasses
which fall on the floors ... which have blood, cattle feces, urine,
ingesta, hair, puss from abscesses, grease, dirt, spit and tobacco [on
them]."
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[From "Etc," In These Times, May 15-21, 1991]
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