Still Fighting for Equal Pay...

Eleanor Smeal and other supporters of equal pay with President Obama

Thank you, Mr. President.  

We've been fighting for equal pay since I was 20.

From today's Los Angeles Times:  

The proposal, which doesn't need legislative approval, would require businesses with at least 100 employees to submit annual pay data by gender, race and ethnicity in an effort to find firms that the White House said are “unlawfully shortchanging workers.”

The median annual wage for a woman working full time is $39,600, 79% the median wage for a man, the White House said, although some critics said that generalized figure overstates the difference.

Now I know why some businesses stay below 100 employees--this required reporting won't apply to them.

FYI: Craigslist stays below 50.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-equal-pay-obama-20160129-story.html

Equal Pay Day

Dear sisters and daughters of the USA--

April 8 is Equal Pay for Women day.  

I just took action with the National Organization for Women (NOW) and Democracy for America. We need to tell Congress to close the gender wage gap by passing the Paycheck Fairness!

It's time to let Congress know that we'll remember in November if they don't support women's rights.

You might want to consider signing the petition on the other end of this link:

http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/PaycheckFairness?sp_ref=37675711.178.7379.e.0.2

On the other hand, you might want to forget it.

What good did it do to fight for ten year to pass the Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution?  Not much.  

The Senate passed the ERA, the House passed it, and 35 states ratified it.  But it takes 38 states to ratify an amendment to the Constitution.

So I have no idea whether signing this petition is worth 10 seconds of your time or not.

Whatever.  Think about it.

from

Anne aka Mom