Good evening, Kibitzers!
Happy Pay Equity Day! Women on average earn 82% of what men earn annually, so this date represents the extra amount of time this “average” woman must work to make as much as the “average” man had made at Dec. 31. As you might imagine, the dates for women of color specifically are later in the year.
A woman who went to college and works outside the home would earn roughly $1.2 million more income over her lifetime if she were paid equally. Men married to such women might do well to pay attention to this too. (Obviously, men reading here do not need this advice. Right?) These stats and more info at the link.
But we’re here today as a followup to last week’s diary, in which we looked at the Billboard-charting pop music of the 1967-68 school year, when I was in 8th grade. Once I started looking through those songs, I didn’t want to leave the 1968-69 year behind. I am not, however, just going to keep doing this until I run out of public school years, at least not now.
Here are links to the Billboard Top 100 charts for 1968 and for 1969. As discussed last week, due to my inability to make choices efficiently, I didn’t use those — here are links to the charts of #1 song for each week in 1968 and in 1969. They made it much easier to get down to a reasonable group of videos. So: Billboard Hot 100 #1 songs for selected weeks in 1968-69, below the fold.