Web Posted: 10/23/2008 12:00 CDT
Becoming a woman also about economics
Heather Draper
http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/32637749.htmlIt's not news that women often make less money than men, even if they are working the same job.
But Alma L. López, the first Latina to be elected chief justice of an appellate court in the United States, this week brought up a notion I'd never heard before — that men who become women make less money than men. (Yes, you read that right.)
López, speaking at the San Antonio YWCA's Women of Influence awards luncheon Tuesday, cited several cases in which women were awarded millions of dollars when it was found they were discriminated against because of their gender.
