Today, March 14 is Equal Pay Day 2023.

This is the day all U.S. women finally earn as much as all men did last year. “Women working full-time, year-round are paid 84 cents and all earners (including part-time and seasonal) are paid 77 cents for every dollar paid to men.”

Muriel “Mickie” Siebert was the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967, 175 years after the exchange was founded.

This was no small feat.

From the get-go, the deck was stacked against her. She needed a seatholder to sponsor her application. Nine turned her down before the tenth came through.

When you own a house built in 1961, you learn a lot.

Pastel tiles in the bathrooms are quaint. Record players and speakers embedded in the wall paneling are cool. Ditto for hidden wet bars with booze bottle wallpaper.

Vintage plumbing fixtures, not so hip.

The Gender Pay Gap is Alive and Well

The latest Pew Research Report on the gender pay gap is hot off the presses, and there’s good news and bad news.

Not all female money makers operate(d) by the rules.

Madame Stephanie St. Clair was known as The Numbers Queen of Harlem. Starting in 1923, she built an illegal lottery “policy” into a cash machine that earned her $200,000 a year ($3.4 million in today’s dollars) per year.

Women are now signing off on U.S. legal tender.

A lot goes into producing the greenbacks in your wallet, including the signatures of Janet Yellen, the Secretary of the Treasury, and Lynn Roberge Malerba, U.S. Treasurer.