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Pay disparities are discrimination. Gender discrimination.
When women are not receiving equal pay for equal work, the USA Treasury is losing its tax base.
Top lawyer decries unequal pay for women (click here)
Bob Egelko
Updated 8:07 pm, Friday, May 10, 2013
Fifty years after Congress banned sex discrimination in wages, it's inexcusable that women - including women at the highest levels of the legal profession - are still paid less than men for the same work, the American Bar Association's fifth female president told a San Francisco audience Friday.
"Same job, same responsibilities, unequal pay," Laurel Bellows said in a speech to the Commonwealth Club. "It's totally outrageous. ... You lose talent, you lose perspective, you end up with that bland, all-white-guy community."
Women make 77 cents for every dollar paid to men, a disparity that has been unchanged for more than a decade, according to the latest report by the National Women's Law Center. Analysts disagree on how much of the difference is due to choice of occupation, family responsibilities and other personal factors and how much is due to discrimination....
By Matt Canham
May 12, 2013
Washington
Fearing new regulations (click here) in the aftermath of the financial crisis, payday lenders decided to make a major play for the support of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. They contributed more than $126,000 to his campaign as the Nevada Democrat attempted to beat back a tea party challenge, hoping that the man who controls the Senate agenda would protect their interests.
Their gambit didn’t stop the creation of a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Reid supported....
Now listen Harry, you aren't going to have these donations next election. You need to replace them now.
Does Mitt Romney Support Equal Pay for Women? (click here)
By Caroline Esser
April 11, 2012
Apparently, the upcoming recall election is not enough controversy for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Last Thursday he decided to step it up a notch by also repealing the 2009 Equal Pay Enforcement Act in Wisconsin.
Now listen Harry, you aren't going to have these donations next election. You need to replace them now.
Does Mitt Romney Support Equal Pay for Women? (click here)
By Caroline Esser
April 11, 2012
Apparently, the upcoming recall election is not enough controversy for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Last Thursday he decided to step it up a notch by also repealing the 2009 Equal Pay Enforcement Act in Wisconsin.
And since Mitt Romney has recently expressed his support for Walker—at a GOP dinner in Pewaukee, Romney called Walker a “hero”—the conversation on equal pay has shifted from the governor to the presidential candidate. Immediately following the repeal, President Barack Obama’s campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith emphasized Walker and Romney’s friendship and pointedly asked: “Does Romney think women should have the ability to take their bosses to court to get the same pay as their male coworkers? Or does he stand with Governor Walker against this?”
Initially, it did not seem that the Romney campaign cared to answer. But that changed this morning when Huffington Post journalist Sam Stein asked during a conference call whether Romney supports the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the first bill signed into law by President Obama. The Romney aide’s answer: “Sam, we’ll get back to you on that.”...
See, when the law that supports equal pay for equal work is repealed there is no basis to sue the boss. It astounds me when women act against their own best interests. Walker should have been thrown out of office on the basis of gender discrimination alone. Go figure.
