Showing posts with label Equal Pay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Equal Pay. Show all posts

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Democrats Try To Force Republicans To Allow Vote On Pay Equity

Democrats Try To Force Republicans To Allow Vote On Pay Equity: Last summer, Republican senators filibustered the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would have bolstered protections for women who are discriminated against in their paychecks and increased salary transparency to let women find out if they were being paid less than their male colleagues. The bill was filed again this year by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), with [...]/p

Friday, February 15, 2013

GOP ‘Savior’ Marco Rubio Falls Back On The Same Old Anti-Woman Policies

GOP ‘Savior’ Marco Rubio Falls Back On The Same Old Anti-Woman Policies: In an interview on Thursday with conservative magazine Newsmax, Tea Party standard-bearer and so-called ‘savior’ of the Republican party Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) revealed that he will become a cosponsor of the “Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act.” The bill is a concerted effort to prevent girls in dangerous family situations from going across state lines [...]/p

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Top Romney Surrogate Says Pay Equity Legislation Is ‘Nothing But An Effort To Help Trial Lawyers’

Top Romney Surrogate Says Pay Equity Legislation Is ‘Nothing But An Effort To Help Trial Lawyers’: Mitt Romney’s campaign won’t say if the GOP presidential candidate would have signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law, but on Sunday Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) — a top campaign surrogate — disparaged the measure as a giveaway to trail lawyers. “I think that anyone who’s working out there and making a living, [...]/p

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

GOP Representative Says: 'Let's Hurl Some Acid At Those Female Democratic Senators'

GOP Representative Says: 'Let's Hurl Some Acid At Those Female Democratic Senators'
"Townsend wrote."My question today... when is Tommy boy going to weigh in on all the Lilly Ledbetter hypocrites who claim to be fighting the War on Women? Let’s hurl some acid at those female democratic Senators who won’t abide the mandates they want to impose on the private sector"."

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Lily Ledbetter: Without Equal Pay, 'We Lose What Cannot be Measure by Dollars'

Lilly Ledbetter, Women's Equality Leader and Namesake of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, talks about her struggle to earn equal pay as a woman for the same job done as a man, and how the first bill President Obama signed into law.