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Don't get mad, get even.(Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men--And What to Do about It)(Book review)

Crittenden, Ann

GETTING EVEN: WHY WOMEN DON'T GET PAID LIKE MEN--AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT BY EVELYN MURPHY WITH E.J. GRAFF Touchstone, 352 pages, $24.95

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT THE news couldn't get any worse, here comes a report from the trenches of the American workplace, where apparently women are still being short-changed in the same old egregious ways. I must admit that I had thought that blatant, in-your-face sex discrimination was by and large a thing of the past, except in a few dark corners of male chauvinism like Wall Street, the extractive industries, the skilled trades, Hooters, and ...