Fair Pay – Duh.

Watch this awesome cartoon where Bat Girl sues Bat Man because he’s been paying Robin more than she for the same work.

To all you Republicans out there – It SHOULDN’T take an Act of Congress to get women Equal Pay.

But, evidently it does.

You’ve only had like one hundred years to let “the market” correct itself in regards to paying women less than men for equal work.

Hell, I’ve done far better work and been paid less than my saunter-in-at 10-am-and-write-one-article-a-week-lied-about-his-college-degree-and-still-get-paid-$15,000-a-year-more male counterpart.

One recent study found that over the course of a lifetime women lose approximately $434,000, on average, over a 40-year period because of the gender wage, with single moms making the least (source: Momsrising.org, where you can send a letter to Congress now).

It’s a shame “the market” is such a resistant and slow learner. Now, its going to Congress and some of you are going to court.

And if the United States Chamber of Congress fears that it will open up the floodgates to past grievances with previous employers and even open up the court system to other family members adversely affected by discriminatory pay, as in their letter urging Congress not to pass the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act.

It’s a shame that it just barely occurred to corporations that paying women less would adversely affect family members and that might come back to bite them in the ass.

What was that your mother always told you, YOU SHOULD HAVE LISTENED THE FIRST TIME!

Photo source: Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me