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BUSINESS B2 THE DISPATCH AND THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS SUNDAY. APRIL 25, 1993 CALENDAR Gender pay gap narrowing Employer-supported family programs Companies are responding to the increase In dual-income couples with programs designed to help workers with family responsibilities. 1 In thousands of companies 6 Netware 4.0 from 8:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4:30 p.m. April 29, at Electronic Business Equipment.4430 Kennedy Drive, East Moline.

Dan Rietzeld and a systems engineer from Novell will speak on upgrading, installation and utilities review. Seating is limited. For more information or to register, call Electronic Business Equipment, 792-5550. Women's financial seminar offered BETTENDORF David Howard and Pam Kloster-mann from Waddell Reed and Barbara Rudsell from the Social Security Administration will explain how to save and structure a plan to provide women with a financially secure future from p.m. May 5 at the Bettendorf Public Library.

For information or to register, call 764-2727. State hosts seminar on regional exports ROCK ISLAND The Department of Commerce and Community Affairs and the Illinois Development Finance Authority will host a regional export seminar at 8 a.m. April 28 at the Plaza One Hotel. The program will include presentations by the managers of Illinois" six foreign trade offices, an introduction to the state's new export finance program and a representative of the U.S. Export Import Bank providing information on export insurance programs.

For more information or to register, call Bert Gisi, (217) 524-1567. Experts explain Novell Netware 4.0 EAST MOLIXE Novell Platinum and Electronic Business Equipment will have a technical seminar on Novell high-school educations earned more on average than women with college degrees. The pay gender gap is biggest in private industry, smaller in government and nonprofit organizations. In pay equity, the Detroit area ranked 34th among the nation's 35 largest metro areas. The average income for full-time working women in metro Detroit was 63 percent of the average for men.

In top-ranking New York, it was 79 percent Only women in the Nassau-Suffolk area in suburban New York City fared worse than women in Detroit Women in Rust Belt states fared the poorest; women in Pacific Coast states did the best. "The Midwest has the quintessential, old-fashioned industrial structure" a manufacturing economy in which menx have higher-paying jobs, said Heidi Hartmann, a labor economist and director of the Washington-based Institute for Women's Policy Research. Percent of companies offering programs Part-time schedules Ty'fji 87 8 Employee-assistance programs Personal days wJsMitMiAji tad Flex-time Personal leaves of absence Child-care resource and referral Spouse-employment assistance Dependent-care assistance plans Job-sharing arrangements 47.9 Rex-place 5 4 3 1 nJ 1 1,1 1982 '84 '86 '88 '90 SOURCE: Families and Work Institute Knight-Ridder Newspapers DETROIT The progress is slow, but women are making strides when it comes to taking home man-sized paychecks. During the 1980s, the average pay for a woman as a percentage of a man's pay rose significantly, and younger women appear to be doing the best, according to a Detroit Free Press analysis of recently released census data. In 1979, the average full-time working woman was paid just 61 percent of what men 1989, that figure rose to 71 percent Something hasn't changed, however: Paychecks of mothers lag well behind those of childless women.

"There's still this view that women, simply by virtue of having kids or taking time off to be with those children, are less valuable employees," said Ellen Bravo, national director of 9to5, the National Association of Working Women. Among the findings: Some of women's gains are because younger men's average wages, adjusted for inflation, dropped in the 1980s. But real gains by women in their 20s and early 30s also narrowed the gap. Women in their 20s with no children averaged 90 percent or more of what men in their 20s made in 1989. A decade earlier, women in their 20s averaged 80 percent or less of a man's paycheck.

For example, the average 26-year-old childless woman working full-time was paid about $19,800 in 1989, or 92 percent of what an average 26-year-old man made. But the historic drop-off as women get older continued. In that same year, childless women in their mid-30s were down to the mid-80-percent range. For The so-called "mommy track" penalty continues. For example, the average 25-year-old mother in 1989 earned about $14,900, or about 74 percent of what a 25-year-old man did.

By their mid-30s, men with 3DO setting new standard in video game multimedia convinced that at her current company "males and females are treated equally." Yet experts say that most of America's workplaces remain a long way from being bastions of gender equality. women with children often lose their jobs, not necessarily because they want to take significant time off," said Bravo of 9to5. "There's plain old pregnancy discrimination. Until two months ago, we didn't have the barest protection in this country." Bravo was referring to this year's new federal parental leave law, which requires larger companies to grant up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for new children or for family emergencies. The gap between pay for men and pay for women exists mainly because women still tend to hold jobs that pay less.

Most top executives are men, despite women's attempts to break through the Knight-Ridder Tribune glass ceiling that frequently; blocks their advancement to the very highest echelons. And male bosses still assume' young women will have children! and leave their jobs, said Kelly; Jenkins, program coordinator! for the National Committee on! Pay Equity in Washington, D.C. 1 "That hurts women's promo-! tional opportunities and earning power." One problem cited is the belief! that some managers are more likely to reward fathers with; higher pay than women or men' who don't have children. "Men are given raises because 1 they have families to support. In I the store, there aren't different prices for married or divorced, i children or no children.

A gallon of milk costs the same no matter who you are," said Debora Ren-! ner, president of the Detroit chapter of the National Organiza- tion for Women. Microsoft to I 'First, women with children often lose their jobs, not necessarily because they want to take significant time off. There's plain old pregnancy Ellen Bravo, Director, 9to5 Royal Oak, resident Kimberly Holland, 29, is testament to the progress some women have made. In the mid-to-late 1930s, she worked for an auto company. "The men I worked with were better-compensated," she said.

Today Holland, married with one child, is research director at a Farmington Hills, market-research firm and equally player" that can be attached to television sets. The themes of the games, both expected to cost about $60, should be familiar to any Nintendo or Sega devotee: Crash Burn is a road-race game "set in a post-holocaust world, year 2044" where armored combat vehicles piloted by vicious mutants compete to be crowned king or queen of Death-drome. Total Eclipse is a battle among space fighters in the year 2918; the object is saving Earth from the evil Drak-sai, who are using their Sun Daggers to suck energy from neighborhood stars. Both games will be shipped on compact disks, read-only memory (CD-ROMs), which can hold several hundred times more data than today's video game Knight-Ridder Newspapers SAN JOSE, Calif. For video game fanatics, technology keeps getting better but the story remains the same.

That's what surfaced Tuesday in the first public showing of games for the new 3DO system, now being developed by a coalition of Silicon Valley and Hollywood companies. 3DO is being closely watched because it is the boldest attempt yet to transform multimedia, the infant field that combines computers and television, into a consumer market. Crystal Dynamics a Palo Alto, start-up company, offered reporters a sneak preview of two 3DO titles, Crash 'N Burn and Total Eclipse. They will reach stores around Thanksgiving timed to the arrival of the first $700 3DO "interactive multi- KEY MARKET INTEREST RATES Prepared by Robert W. Baird Co.

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