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As President-elect Barack Obama and Congress look to address this nation's economic ills, we urge that pay equity legislation be included in the forthcoming economic stimulus package. The elimination of gender-based wage discrimination is a mainstream economic issue of critical importance to the families of working women who compose half of America's working people. Women get no price break when they pay for gas, groceries or the light bill; why should employers get a price break when they pay women doing the same work as men? A 2008 Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions report stated that more...

For those of you who may not know, the publishing industry is almost completely run by liberals. Any debate on this should be ended by an August survey from Publishing Trends which showed a whopping 86% of respondents plan to vote for Barack Obama in November. Yes, 86%. Here's the real stunner, though. A survey in Publishers Weekly released in July of 2008, found the following:The salary divide between men and women actually increased in 2007—men received an average salary increase of 4.5% last year, compared to 4.2% for women. Men earned an average salary of $103,822 last year, compared...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- You just knew that when Joe O'Connell, former head of the local AFL-CIO, got on stage here with John McCain and Sarah Palin things were not going smoothly for the Obama campaign among union voters. "I am a lifelong Democrat, an intelligent Democrat, who is supporting John McCain," O'Connell said last week as a crowd of 7,000 waved "Another Democrat for John McCain" signs and roared its approval.

VIENNA, OHIO -- You have to wonder with just 49 days left until election day, what is Sen. John McCain doing in Ohio's Mahoning Valley again? It's not like there is a history of Republicans winning here. George W. Bush was only able to muster a little more than 36 percent of the vote in 2004, up 1 percent from 2000, when Bush went against Al Gore. This rust-belt, blue-collar community with a heavy Democratic voter registration advantage has seen better times -- the steel industry is gone, replaced by a lower income service industry. The medium income hovers at...

“Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day’s work,” Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Aug. 28 in his convention acceptance speech. He told the crowd in Denver: “I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.” Obama’s campaign Web site is even more specific. Under the heading “Fighting for Pay Equity,” the women’s issues page laments that, “Despite decades of progress, women still make only 77 cents for every dollar a man makes. A recent study estimates it will take another 47 years for women to close the...

The Sen. Barack Obama campaign is under performing with women, especially older white ones. So, it released a list of female surrogates that will be his force on issues that are important to those women voters -- like equal pay. There also will soon be an ad released that will hit Sen. John McCain on the touchy issue of equal pay. According to McCain-Palin spokesman Brian Rogers, that is a problem for Barack Obama, since he is the one that pays his females staffers less than the men. Rogers points to Senate Records showing that women working in Sen. Obama's...

Compensation figures for his legislative staff reveal that Obama pays women just 83 cents for every dollar his men make. Obama’s average male employee earned $54,397 Obama’s female employees [earned] $45,152, on average. McCain’s male staffers averaging $53,936. His female employees averaged $55,878.

As major female Democratic Hillary Rodham Clinton backers are consolidating around Barack Obama, the Obama campaign is cranking up its pitch to women voters, with a joint Clinton/Biden video forum Wednesday, part of a "Women's Week of Action." This activity comes as polls show Obama has not been able to win over a chunk of Clinton backers--and as Sarah Palin threatens to drain off crucial female voters. The Obama campaign is, I was told, "redoubling" its efforts to lock-in support of women, especially the Democratic leaners who by logic should be with Obama. Senators and House members and other women...

Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 04/24/2007 Pelosi: ‘Working Women and Their Families Deserve Equal Pay for Equal Work’ Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement this morning at an Education and Labor Committee hearing on equal pay: “I want to thank the Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller for convening this critical hearing today on Strengthening the Middle Class: Ensuring Equal Pay for Women. “I also want to recognize the leadership of Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, a champion for equal pay in the Congress, who for 10 years has been introducing the Paycheck...

For the feminists of the world, today is Equal Pay Day -- a day to stand up and decry publicly the supposed "wage gap" between men and women in the workplace. Equal Pay Day falls on April 25 this year and is said to be the day women catch up to men in pay for the previous year. It's pretty much another day for feminists to bemoan the "victimization" of the female population. They spout off repeatedly the statistic from the Department of Labor that says the average working woman receives $0.77 for every dollar earned by working men. Don’t...

I need some freeper help. I was having a discussion with a friend about equal pay for women (she is earning less than she should, but that is not the immediate issue) and I mentioned I had read an article that referred to a study that suggested that the disparity in women's pay may be due - at least statistically - to women having less time at the job because of child care, etc. i can't find the article. Does anyone remember seeing it? If so, can you please send a link? Thanks

In my run for Congress (California's 48th District U.S. House Representative), I wish to support a women's right to "equal pay for equal work." This right was put into law with the "Equal Pay Act of 1963." Most women will tell you that they do not possess significant equality of equal pay compared to men doing the same job. I'd like to see the many corporate businesses of the 48th District set an example of gender equity for women.

...Comparable worth was intended to eliminate the gap between the earnings of men and women. Feminists argued that only hidden discrimination could explain the relatively lower wages in female-dominated occupations, like librarians, compared to male-dominated jobs, like electricians. Under comparable worth, employers would be required to rate jobs according to abstract notions of intrinsic value based on years of education required for a given job, the level of responsibility it entailed, and working conditions involved. In a free market, however, wages -- like prices -- are set primarily by supply and demand. Diamonds are not intrinsically more valuable than water...

White women lag in pay among college graduates Associated PressPosted March 28 2005 WASHINGTON -- Black and Asian women with bachelor's degrees earn slightly more than similarly educated white women. A white woman with a bachelor's degree typically earned nearly $37,800 in 2003, compared with nearly $43,700 for a college-educated Asian woman and $41,100 for a college-educated black woman, according to data being released Monday by the Census Bureau. Hispanic women earned $37,600 a year. The bureau did not say why.  

A recent Business Week article solemnly confirmed “it will be 50 years before women achieve equal pay with men and nearly 100 years before they gain equal representation in Congress.” In other words: there they go again. Perhaps Amey Stone (Business Week senior writer) would offer up some “analysis” as to why this is, especially considering her piece was under Business Week’s variety topic “news analysis.” But, alas, the article was analysis-less and instead offered but a depressing plethora of figures to prove how unfairly women are treated in the workplace, poorly paid compared to their male counterparts, and so...

Here are a few of the myths you'll probably hear on "Equal Pay Day," followed by the facts about women, wages and work. Myth #1: Women earn only 72 cents for every dollar that men earn. If this myth were true, employers would be aeger to replace their male workers with cheaper (and better) female workers, and thus increase their profits. But the "72 cents" claim is misleading because it only refers to the median wages of all men and all women in the work force, without regard to age, education, occupation, experience or working hours -- factors that even...

Desperate men often resort to clichéd lines when trying to snare women. Senator John Kerry must be desperate, because he dragged out the tired, misleading statistic about the so-called wage gap during last night's ....

CHICAGO, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- For the first time since tracking began 20 years ago, U.S. women outnumber men in higher paying, white collar managerial and professional occupations. The gap will continue because of a self-perpetuating cycle of workplace gains for women, according to international outplacment firm Chicago-based Challenger, Gray & Christmas. "As a growing number [of women] move into upper management roles, those [women] further down the ladder will reap the benefits by increasingly being targeted for advancement," said John A. Challenger, chief executive officer of Challenger, Gray & Christmas.Read more...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) joined several of her female colleagues from both the Senate and House, and union representatives Tuesday to call for legislation to end alleged pay-scale discrimination against women. "At some point, simple justice demands that women receive equal pay for equal work," Clinton said. "I can't think of a more un-American fact than that; that women are, in any way, discriminated against in the 21st century in the workforce." Clinton is a co-sponsor of the Paycheck Fairness Act (H.R.781), originally introduced in the House by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.). "The wage gap leaves women short-changed and...