EQUAL PAY

[ishiqa]

Equal Pay for Women!

It's the law! Sex discrimination against women is a crime...this time let's get organized!
How can women be more than half of the electorate and continue to suffer the financial loss and indignity of lower pay and pensions and not one of these major political figures has mentioned it? Yu've got to ask yourself, what kind of people are running these campaigns? Do they think women don't care?

Carol Moseley-Braun (Former IL Senator)

Wesley Clark (NATO General)

Hillary Rodham Clinton - (NY Senator)

Howard Dean (Former VT Governor)

John Edwards (NC Senator)

Dick Gephardt (MO Representative)

Bob Graham (FL Senator)

John Kerry (MA Senator)

Dennis Kucinich (OH Representative)

Joe Lieberman (CT Senator)

Al Sharpton (Reverend and Civil Rights activist)

Women are more than half the population and more than half of the voters. Yet Equal Pay is not listed in lists of major campaign issues.
Make Equal Pay for Women a Democratic Platform Plank! Equal pay has been the law since 1963. 40 years later, women are still paid less, a lot less than men. Over a lifetime of work, the 23 cents-on-the-dollar women are losing adds up. The average 25-year-old working woman will lose more than $523,000 to unequal pay during her working life. Women have less to save for their futures and they’ll earn smaller pensions than men. Half of all women with income from a pension in 2002 received less than $5,600 per year, compared with $10,340 per year for men. Ifyou are a minority woman it's worse.

Why don't women just take a large corporation to court and publicize the issue and get it adjudicated? How many people are willing to become an outcast in their field and a social pariah, for blowing the whistle? Very few. So as always in a democracy the big interests beat-up and ignore the minority interest...except this isn't a minority...it's a majority.

Isn't it government's job to provide equal opportunity and pay? And why hasn't it happened? ake it happen this year. Make women equal partners in pay. It's the law. I am writing this letter to everyone in Congress, women in government and Women's PACs. As many as my energies will permit. Please join me in this call for justice and equality.

It's time for government to take action. The citizens that you have legislated to protect can not take that action for themselves without dire consequences...consequences that ruin lives and stain careers. The reality of this intimidation is overwhelming. It paralyses pride and pulverizes the desire to see the right thing done. Government must step in and level the playing field.

Democrats are the only party that has stood for equal rights and has the history, the drive and the resources to get it done. WE URGE YOU TO MAKE THIS A CAMPAIGN ISSUE. Think of the impact, think of the numbers, and I'm sure you'll see this is an election winning issue.

[deception]

Equal Pay for Women!

Democrats are the only party that has stood for equal rights and has the history, the drive and the resources to get it done. WE URGE YOU TO MAKE THIS A CAMPAIGN ISSUE. Think of the impact, think of the numbers, and I'm sure you'll see this is an election winning issue.

i think u are looking at a revisionist, spurious history; no major american political entity has ever campaigned for the advancement of civil rights, maybe there are varied tacit insinuations but that’s the extent of it. chomsky my favoruite anarcho syndicalist has referred to kerry as "bush-lite”. u have to understand that america's two party system has not historically made allowances for divergent opinions. my point which i reiterate in the forums is that there is no substantive change from the democrats to the republicans. in fact, critical scholars argue that america experienced the most social change during the nixon years because of the rise of black militancy, women's lib. and other social movements that coerced change. read my post "what if" for additional information. in regards, to equal pay for equal work, i think its so far away in contemporary America persuaded by the evangelical christians who want to keep women housebound. nevertheless, the encouraging news is around the corner, universities are experiencing rising enrollment numbers by female students, I think it’s a 55/45 split today in favour of women. one of the big reasons for the discrepancies in pay is that women are relegated to part-time work, just go into a fast food joint and I guarantee u that 3/5 employees will be female. also, there is the hindrance of a glass ceiling effect prohibiting women from promotion in professional jobs. studies show that women work harder on the job and have extra domestic duties like child rearing and cleaning than men yet they aren’t compensated as such.

[ishiqa]

did you just get back from another gender and women's studies class? :lol:

since when are women paid less than men? i dont think any corporation pays a woman less than they pay a man. its the same pay for everyone, but you wouldnt know, because you dont have a job, or you never will, because you'll expect your husband to support you financially.


women get paid the same as men, its just that women, on average, do not have as many well-paying jobs, and hence, the average income of women is less than the average income of men. also, not as many women have full time jobs as men, and that lowers the average income of women too.
I worked in semiconductors as a summer job last year, and women always got screwed salary wise. i think that happens in a lot of industries. equal rights for women have come a long way, but there is still always that glass cieling for women when it comes to salaries. as for myself, i wouldn't want my husband (if i were married) to take care of me financially. it would be a double income household.

[ishiqa]

Equal Pay for Women!

Democrats are the only party that has stood for equal rights and has the history, the drive and the resources to get it done. WE URGE YOU TO MAKE THIS A CAMPAIGN ISSUE. Think of the impact, think of the numbers, and I'm sure you'll see this is an election winning issue.

i think u are looking at a revisionist, spurious history; no major american political entity has ever campaigned for the advancement of civil rights, maybe there are varied tacit insinuations but that’s the extent of it. chomsky my favoruite anarcho syndicalist has referred to kerry as "bush-lite”. u have to understand that america's two party system has not historically made allowances for divergent opinions. my point which i reiterate in the forums is that there is no substantive change from the democrats to the republicans. in fact, critical scholars argue that america experienced the most social change during the nixon years because of the rise of black militancy, women's lib. and other social movements that coerced change. read my post "what if" for additional information. in regards, to equal pay for equal work, i think its so far away in contemporary America persuaded by the evangelical christians who want to keep women housebound. nevertheless, the encouraging news is around the corner, universities are experiencing rising enrollment numbers by female students, I think it’s a 55/45 split today in favour of women. one of the big reasons for the discrepancies in pay is that women are relegated to part-time work, just go into a fast food joint and I guarantee u that 3/5 employees will be female. also, there is the hindrance of a glass ceiling effect prohibiting women from promotion in professional jobs. studies show that women work harder on the job and have extra domestic duties like child rearing and cleaning than men yet they aren’t compensated as such.
i just remembered this. i heard one of Clintons political advisors saying that neither candidate is gearing towards womens issues. and I found that strange cuz Kerry has listed on Fox news website(where they discuss the issues on the candidates) womens issues. i wish i could remember the guys name. i think if they should research candidates more before they make comments like that.

[deception]

word of advice, don't get your news from fox news. i suppose doing that is like believing verbatim of what the US state department puts out, “iraq poses an imminent threat”

[Sphinx7]

word of advice, don't get your news from fox news. i suppose doing that is like believing verbatim of what the US state department puts out, “iraq poses an imminent threat”

DAMN HOLY SHIT FINALLY SOME WORDS HERE THAT I LIKE

eye been telling these hollow heads to stop soakin up news from Fox, Cnn, and other tricknology.

fuckin savages