From the AP report: "The bill would have strengthened the 1963 Equal Pay Act by requiring employers to justify pay differences between genders, and making it illegal for bosses to retaliate against subordinates who share salary information with co-workers. Women are paid 77 cents for every dollar earned by men. That's an improvement from 1963, when they earned 59 cents for every dollar, but America can do better, said Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa."
Ya think? Ya really THINK????? Here's what Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) had to say:
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No, they simply are madmen.
How can we even be DEBATING equal-pay-for-equal-work-for-women!!
Simple. We're not. We're debating this bill, which is an entirely different animal.
Women are paid 77 cents for every dollar earned by men.
Women earn, over their lifetimes, less than men. This is in large part due to the fact that as a whole women work fewer hours than men over their lifetimes and they also tend to concentrate in lower-paid professions.
Where women are working the same job as a man with commensurate training, duties and tenure they should get paid the same amount of money. I don't see that as controversial. But those kinds of situations are not where that 77 cents on the dollar figure comes from. And this bill will do nothing about the actual root cause of that imbalance.
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