Lonestar_logic
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No because that wasn't what the Act was about. It is already against the law to pay women less for the same work as men. The Lilly Ledbetter Act was about lawsuits not equal pay. The Act basically said that women could go back twenty years and file lawsuits claiming low pay was based on gender discrimination.
Please do some research on the subject.
Maybe you need to do some research. So you don't put out ignorant information like you just did. The Ledbetter act just makes it possible for women to file a suit when they feel they are being discriminated and paid less than men who are doing the same job. And, because people don't have to reveal their salaries, it's not that easy for women to figure out if they are being discriminated and paid less.
On April 9, 2013, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which President John F. Kennedy declared to be the end of the "unconscionable practice of paying female employees less wages than male employees for the same job" when he signed it.
The anniversary, known as Equal Pay Day, marks how far into 2013 women must work to earn what men earned in 2012. That doesn't exactly sound like the Equal Pay Act achieved its goal, does it?
Women in the United States today are paid on average 77 cents for every dollar paid to men -- the gap is even worse for African-American and Latina women -- and according to a new study done by the National Partnership For Women And Families, the gender-based wage gap exists in every state and in the country's 50 largest metropolitan areas.
Women And Equal Pay Wage Gap Still Intact Study Shows
The bill that your leaders turned their back on would make it impossible for men to keep their pay a secret, but I guess you didn't know that, so you just spew your stupid comments and diss Obama without even looking at the situation. No wonder most conservatives are considered less informed, you just proved it.
After allowing the Paycheck Fairness Act to move forward last week, Senate Republicans turned around on Monday evening and unanimously voted to block the bill, which would ban salary secrecy and tighten rules to try to narrow the gender wage gap.
The vote came weeks after the Republican National Committee claimed that “All Republicans support equal pay.” Senate Republicans have unanimously shot the bill down multiple times over the past four years.
The bill includes a number of provisions aimed at preventing the gender wage gap in the first place, which currently means a woman who works full time, year round makes 77 percent of what a similar man makes and hasn’t budged in a decade.
It would ban salary secrecy, in which employers prohibit or strongly discourage employees from discussing pay with each other, thus making it difficult for women to discover unequal practices. While it’s illegal to tell workers they can’t talk about wages with each other without a business justification, since it infringes on the right to engage in concerted activities for mutual aid, it’s still widespread: about half of private sector workers say they can’t talk about pay at work. But in workplaces without this practice, the wage gap shrinks. Among the federal workforce, where pay scales are usually transparent, the wage gap has fallen significantly over the past 20 years. It’s also falling among unionized workers, who similarly tend to have wage transparency.
Republicans Unanimously Block Equal Pay Bill ThinkProgress
Now, I bet you feel really smart.![]()
Thank you for proving my point.
The Lilly Ledbetter Act was about lawsuits not equal pay.
Your point? You're as loony as Sarah Palin. But I somewhat expected that from you.....proving my point.....you're as uninformed as the rest, no wonder you're defending Sarah Palin.
Palin is a very successful woman. If that is what you call loony, then you have things seriously fucked up. But then again, you're a liberal so it's to be expected.
She may be successful, that doesn't mean she is intelligent and Presidential material, just that she knows how to work some people. But, I see you're avoiding the Equal Pay issue with your deflection about Palin's success. Hope you do some research, so you won't be so uninformed.
Success does come with some level of intelligence. As I've stated before she had more experience than the idiot you voted for and defend to this day.
The equal pay issue is a non-issue drummed up by the left to deflect attention away from Obama-care. The vote you referred to was the vote on the Lilly Ledbetter Act which was not about equal pay but about making it easier for women to file lawsuits.
But speaking of equal pay, when have you ever criticized your messianic President for not paying the women he employs the same as the men?
You bitch and moan about the Republicans yet your President is the just as guilty if not more so than anyone else.
So go ahead and worm your way out of answering that question.