When is $4 million really $2.8 million?
One answer is “When you’re a woman,” as the Labor Department has repeatedly found that women earn about 75 cents for every dollar that men earn for the same work.
But this week’s answer is “When you are the Office of Women’s Health” within the Food and Drug Administration. That office, which was at the center of a politically damaging storm over the emergency contraceptive “Plan B,” just had more than one-quarter of this year’s $4 million operating budget quietly removed, insiders say.
Women’s Health Office Funds Cut (Washington Post)
At the same time, it is reported that over one-third of American women are infected with HPV by age twenty-four.