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side. "You can actually hear it running." She says she reported the leak, but water officials say they have no record of it.
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Young women's pay rising but they say more work needed for workplace equality
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- About 75 percent of young women believe the U.S. needs to do more to bring about equality in the workplace, a new study finds, despite a narrowing pay gap and steady employment gains for women at higher levels of business and government.
• Those women remain as pessimistic as their mothers and grandmothers regarding gender equality in the workplace, according to the report released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center.
• The study finds that women under 32 now make 93 percent of what young men earn, aided by women's higher rates of college completion. But the analysis of census and labor data also shows the gender pay gap will widen for women by their mid-30s, if the experience of the past three decades is a guide.
• That widening gap is due in part to the many women who take time off or reduce their hours to start families. Other factors cited in the report are gender stereotyping, discrimination, weaker professional networks and women's hesitancy to aggressively push for raises and promotions, which together may account for 20 percent to 40 percent of the pay gap.
• Even so, just 15 percent of young women say they have been discriminated against because of their gender.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Wednesday, Dec. 11, the 345th day of 2013. There are 20 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Dec. 11, 1972, Apollo 17's lunar module landed on the moon with astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt aboard; during three extravehicular activities (EVAs), they became the last two men to date to step onto the lunar surface.
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