ACTION ALERT: End Wage Discrimination Against Women
March 5, 2009
by The New Agenda
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With the ink barely dry on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, The New Agenda has this exciting update: Kristen Gillibrand has become the latest Senator to co-sponsor the Paycheck Fairness Act.
On our Goals tab, we explain:
In 2007, the Census Bureau reported that, on average, a woman working full time is paid 22% less than a man for doing substantially the same work.
That is why we need the Paycheck Fairness Act.
The Paycheck Fairness Act addresses different aspects of wage discrimination than the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which was approved earlier this year. The Paycheck Fairness Act would strengthen existing law by making the penalties for wage discrimination on the basis of sex just as tough as the penalties for discrimination on the basis of race and ethnicity. It would create outreach and incentive programs to help employers close the wage gap, and it strengthens the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission’s capacity to detect violations and investigate claims.
The Paycheck Fairness Act already passed the House of Representatives, but the battle is hardly over. In order for this legislation to advance in the Senate, it must receive bipartisan support: at least one Republican Senator must sign on as co-sponsor. Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine agreed to be the Republican co-sponsor of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, and all four Republican women Senators broke ranks to vote in favor of it.
Women accomplish great things when we all stick together. Please call these brave Senators, thank them for their prior support, and ask them to co-sponsor the Paycheck Fairness Act!.
CONTACT:
Senator Kay Hutchison
284 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-4304:
Phone: 202-224-5922
Fax: 202-224-0776
Senator Olympia Snowe
154 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-5344
Fax: (202) 224-1946
Senator Susan Collins
413 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2523
Fax: (202) 224-2693
Senator Lisa Murkowski
709 Hart Senate Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-6665
Fax: 202-224-5301
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Yes! Yes! Yes!
Women’s financial independance through higher wages might be an effective damper on male partner abuse of women.
just a reminder for women’s history month.
in 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stenton had her first success, having the New York State legislature pass the Married Womens Property Act, which allowed women to keep their earnings.
just watched the movie from PBS movies: “Elisabeth Cady Stenton and Susan B Anthony, Not for ourselves alone”
highly recommend.
on a wider issue, there is an action alert from the florida ERA group. they have the votes, but the republican speaker Cretul has problems getting the ERA on the floor.
you can also remind him that the ERA was introduced by a republican Alice Paul, that president Ford was a strong supporter, so are other republicans such Michelle Bachman from Wisconsin (House) and Singer (Arkansas senator).
here is the alert:
1) Through the end of March, please keep House Speaker Cretul’s office phone ringing off the hook, 850 488-1450. You can also email him at larry.cretul@myfloridahouse.gov
Please say, “I’m calling to urge the Speaker to HOLD ERA 8003 HEARINGS IN MARCH. ” If you’d like a bit more to say so your message has more punch, please get suggestions from our site, http://www.RatifyERAflorida.net at the “Postcard Lobbying” button.
2) ALSO, please get your friends together and send postal cards you get at the Post Office (that way you don’t have to lick stamps) to:
SPEAKER CRETUL
420 The Capitol
402 So. Monroe St
Tallahassee FL 32399-1300
3) Please go to http://www.RatifyERAflorida.net early and often for frequent Breaking News. It also moves us up the Google-foodchain past Daffy Schlafly’s site.
Women are 50% of the population, or a little more; the tentative majority. Yet, in our capitalist society, because of men’s discrimination against women and desire to retain privilege over the majority of the population, they have levied poverty onto women and children. While women make strides in their human rights to leave abusive partners, women are still discriminated against in economic affairs: jobs that pay well, jobs that would enable a woman to live independently, and wages that pay the same as a man in fields where a woman actually gets a job.
The idea is that a man “has to take care of a family” but we all know that the facts do not support this. Men take care of themselves. That is men’s economy. Meanwhile women struggle to raise children, the next generation, on menial salaries.
What does this cause? Deepening recession and a credit culture as women property holders struggle to survive, and students struggle to educate themselves in poverty caused by men. Capitalism requires poverty, but systematic poverty that is levied on women and children is causing our economic woes and will only improve with democratic legislations whereby we can assuage the poverty levied onto women and children by ushering more of men’s tax dollars to programs for women and children and the poor.
I know what will get us out of this mess. I know exactly what will get us out of this mess but it won’t happen. Wage redistribution along with the Fair pay legislation. We need to garnish men’s wages for the years that they have been paid more than women and we need to take those and distribute it to the poor. Further, we need to tax all single men who are employed.
Thanks Marille
Also for women’s history month check the many online sites for Burnita Shelton Matthews, the first female Federal Judge, and feminist activist. She is my husband’s cousin.
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