<<< Alternative caption: "Still Bitching after all these years."
After four years of the much celebrated “Lilly Ledbetter” law, signed by the chauvinist, Barack Obama, back in 2009, male staff members earn $8,000 more per year than female staff members, and there are no studies that demonstrate any positive effect on the general population.
Do your own analysis here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/annual-records/2013
Smithson supports the GOP that voted UNANIMOUSLY against the fair pay for women.
ReplyDeleteTell us why you take that position Smithson.
The GOP war on women.
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/339467/republicans_vote_against_equal_pay_for_women–unanimously
Finally a question !! two points: First, we ALREADY HAVE AN EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK act, you moron. It passed into federal law in 1963, was supported by the GOP and signed into law by JFK. It has been illegal to discriminate for wages based upon the sex of the employee for 50 stinking years. Be that as it may, 7 congressional Republicans voted for this waste of time, duplicitous legislation back in 2009 - not that it made any difference. Remember, this was the day of One Party Rule, in the United States of America and we all saw just how incompetently the Democrats handled that charge . . . . . kind of a joke. Understand that in two years of One Party Rule, only two major pieces of legislation was passed into law, neither bill read by any of the Democrats and both are failures as I write today.
ReplyDeletethe '63 act was ineffective, it did not provide accountability. The ledbetter Act amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The new act states that the 180-day statute of limitations for filing an equal-pay lawsuit regarding pay discrimination resets with each new paycheck affected by that discriminatory action.
ReplyDeletesmithson ...uninformed.
Four years after Ledbetter was approved, women's wages have increased by 2 pennies. Apparently you think that shows a measure of "responsibility." Geeesh. Women in 1960 earned a sad 60% of a man's wage. Since the '63 act became law, that has been reduced to about a 20% divide, some of that being the fact that women do not work as many hours as men, and take more "leave time" at a reduced wage. As far as a statute of limitations, reset aside, there still are limitations to filing a complaint. I know several women, over the years, who filed suit for wage discrimination and won, so, I have no clue what you have in mind when you pretend the 64 law was ineffective. AND that law was only amended by Ledbetter, not repealed.
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