Last week, Western Sugar Cooperative Denver agreed to pay U.S. $ 550 000 to settle a lawsuit that it discriminated against its employees.
As reported by the Associated Press, equal job opportunities, the Commission stated that the sugar processor banned women's education, promotions and all the years of work, and gave them less desirable tasks than men, and paid them less .
The company denied the allegations but agreed to pay the money and do more training and awareness, the EEOC said.
The $ 550,000 will go to the west of sugar used Lorelei click, which filed the original complaint, and an unknown number of other workers.
Case Western Sugar suggests that despite years of progress, women still have a long way to go to achieve equality at work - especially when it comes to pay.
The report was published last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that women at the national level has gained about 19 percent less than their male colleagues. The figures are based on 2010 data, showed that men earned an average weekly income of $ 824, while the women took home only $ 669.
BLS found that the amounts of the report does not take into account many factors that may explain the differences in earnings.
The BLS found that among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, the average weekly earnings of women full-time wage and salary jobs last year was $ 530 in Arkansas to $ 835 in Connecticut.
States with the highest wages of women were in the northeast. In addition to Connecticut, including Massachusetts and New Jersey had wages above $ 800 a week, and Maryland was close to $ 798, the BLS said.
New Jersey also had wages above $800 a week and Maryland was close at $798, the BLS said.
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