We just heard that the House is set to vote on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act this week, and the Senate could vote as early as next week! Turns out that while the economic security package is tied up in negotiations, there is a rare window of unscheduled open time to pass long-needed bills. Congress is thinking action…and thanks to the incredible advocacy of MomsRising members and our aligned partners over the past year, Congress is thinking fair pay!

Tell Congress to not to miss this open window to pass Fair Pay!

Follow this link and send your letter: Momsrising.org.

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Fair Pay on Obama’s Desk

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

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Fair Pay – Duh.

McCain helped defeat the Fair Pay Act this week – which concerns your pay check and that guy in the cube next to you.

If you have the same education and training as the guy next to you, you’re making less money. Here’s a statistical fact: If you’re a childless woman you make 73 cents to his dollar. If you’re a mother you make only 60 cents to his dollar.

The Fair Pay Act would have allowed you to sue your company for discrimination for this inequality.

McCain says he doesn’t think our lack of pay equity this is “fair.” But he also doesn’t think you deserve to be allowed to do anything about it.

As reported on Foxnews.com McCain thinks you should go back to school because Equal training, education and experience isn’t going to cut it in his patriarchal world. Evidently he thinks women should have to have MORE training, education and experience than their male counterparts to make the same dollar. That or he’s confused about what the word “same” means.

McCain stated his opposition to the bill as he campaigned in rural eastern Kentucky, where poverty is worse among women than men. The Arizona senator said he was familiar with the disparity but that there are better ways to help women find better paying jobs.

“They need the education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else,” McCain said. “And it’s hard for them to leave their families when they don’t have somebody to take care of them.

“It’s a vicious cycle that’s affecting women, particularly in a part of the country like this, where mining is the mainstay; traditionally, women have not gone into that line of work, to say the least,” he said.

Hey McCain – same means it compares a teacher to a teacher and a minor to a miner not a teacher to a miner. Maybe you should read the bills before you screw half the population.

Yeah, McCain I can see why you find lawsuits unpleasant. No one likes them.

I have to point out though – if you and your boys’ club were OFFERING to pay us THE SAME for the SAME work – we wouldn’t feel compelled to sue you.

Momsrising has a clever response. They’re asking women to send their resumes in just to prove that yeah – we went to the effort to getting those educations, training and experience and we’re still not being paid the SAME!

Image: www.thewashingtonnote.com

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McCain Against Equal Pay