Mikulski et al: Equal pay for women

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Mikulski et al: Equal pay for women
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Posted April 22, 2008 3:15 PM
The Swamp

by Matthew Hay Brown


While their most prominent colleague was in Pennsylvania, trying to secure a presidential salary, a parade of Democratic woman senators took the floor this morning to argue for equal pay for all women.

""Women make this country run," said Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland, the longest-serving woman in the Senate. "We are business leaders, entrepreneurs, politicians, mothers and more. But we earn just 76 cents for every dollar our male counterpart makes. ... People should be judged solely by their individual skills, competence, unique talents and nothing else."

Sens. Barbara Boxer of California, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Claire McCaskill or Missouri and Patty Murray of Washington joined Mikulski in calling for passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act.

Ledbetter was a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. employee who learned after several years of employment that she was earning less than men working in the same job. She brought a pay discrimination case against the company, but the Supreme Court ruled last year that she had waited too long after her employer had decided to pay her less to file a claim.

"How many people know the salary of their co-workers, especially in the first six months that you're on the job?" Mikulski asked. "What if you're hired at an equal rate with your male counterpart but he gets a raise every few months and you don't?"

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1. k&r n/t

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[Cooley Hurd]

4. She's more of a woman than you are...

...dink.:eyes:

[slipslidingaway]

3. K&R n/t

[horseshoecrab]

5. K & R n/t

[Yupster]

6. In my family the stats are much worse

Over the last ten years I have made about 97 % of our family's income even though both my wife and I each have master's degrees in education.

I don't think my wife feels overly discriminated against -- just very fortunate.

[kath]

7. What the heck is up with Mikulski lately (with the exclusion of this equal pay thing)- She's been

voting with the Repugs lately on a lot of *important* damned stuff, and it's really surprised me. Has she gone over to the DarkSide, or what??