Hey "Evolved", who's the "Under the bill, the federal government would be exempt from punitive damages." Typical Democrat law. Exempting THEMSELVES from a law they pass for everyone ELSE.
Here is some more reading for closed minded liberal: "But data from the Obama White House's 2011 annual report show that female staffers there earn a median salary 18 percent lower than that of men.
And nearly four years ago, at the height of the 2008 election season, Scripps Howard syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock wrote that female staffers in Obama's U.S. Senate office, too, were shortchanged."
About 55 percent of voters are women. Women are a majority of the population because as a group they outlive men*, who die sooner of the 12 leading causes of death. (They die sooner largely because the government funds more health research for the group that is healthier and longer-living than it does for men — which would be like taking most of the funding for the sexes' economic improvement and using it for the economic improvement of men, already the higher-earning group). And because men as a group are penalized by having an earlier death, they are a minority that is also penalized by having less political importance as voters: in 2008, 10 million more women voted than men.
Thus, Democrats, seeing women as more important to elections than men, are as a matter of strategy waging a war on Republicans by accusing them of waging a war on women.
But Democrats are waging a war on women, too, of an insidious kind. They are recklessly pandering to women. They continually promise them something for "nothing" — and no doubt anger more than a few men, especially black men, whom Democrats and President Obama have discriminatorily ignored — and disregard the costs to business of their something-for-nothing legislation, costs that are passed on to customers and/or employees, hurting women as much as men. (Read former CNN host Campbell Brown's May 21, 2012, complaint in The New York Times about President Obama's pandering to women.)
A business owner tells how strict equal-pay laws can hurt women more than men:
Have you ever thought that this could backfire on women? Lets take a look for a second. I own a company and need to hire a new employee. I have a man who got hired when the economy was booming and he is paid 60K for his position. Now, the economy is not so good and the supply of labor has increased, lowering the price of employees (i.e wages). Because of these equality laws, I am forbidden from hiring a woman. If I do, I will get sued when she finds out that her colleague is paid more. I could hire a man for the same job and no one would complain, but a woman is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Hence, the laws backfire on women and they do not get hired. Is it any surprise that unemployment is higher among women? Not to me. -HuffingtonPost commenter "hudi42," October 24, 2012
More at Male Matters USA: malemattersusa.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/is-there-a-war-on-women/
This wasn't a defeat for women as much as it is a defeat for the attorneys lobby that funnel campaign money to Mikulski and the dems. Besides, Obama is providing equal pay to men and women through food stamp and welfare programs.
Hellooooo, News Flash. There are more dems in the senate than repubs. It didn't pass because the dems voted against it too.
News Flash...wealthy people got wealthy by not working 40 hour weeks. They got wealthy working 60-80 hour weeks investing savings into things that would earn them more income, not blowing every dime on non-essentials like TVs, rims, jewelry, until AFTER the wealth is earned.
gep, no dems voted against the bill. It failed because it required 60 votes and there are NOT 60 dems in the Senate. Try reading the article next time before posting stupid comments.
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Senate GOP blocks Democrats' equal pay bill.
Here is some more reading for closed minded liberal:
"But data from the Obama White House's 2011 annual report show that female staffers there earn a median salary 18 percent lower than that of men.
And nearly four years ago, at the height of the 2008 election season, Scripps Howard syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock wrote that female staffers in Obama's U.S. Senate office, too, were shortchanged."
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/05/democrats-focus-on-equal-pay-issue-while-obama-white-house-pays-women-less/#ixzz25knTUPGN
Did you read the title of this article? Did you also miss the birth control Republiclown debacle a couple months ago?
Does anyone else get the impression that Republicons LOVE war?
Thus, Democrats, seeing women as more important to elections than men, are as a matter of strategy waging a war on Republicans by accusing them of waging a war on women.
But Democrats are waging a war on women, too, of an insidious kind. They are recklessly pandering to women. They continually promise them something for "nothing" — and no doubt anger more than a few men, especially black men, whom Democrats and President Obama have discriminatorily ignored — and disregard the costs to business of their something-for-nothing legislation, costs that are passed on to customers and/or employees, hurting women as much as men. (Read former CNN host Campbell Brown's May 21, 2012, complaint in The New York Times about President Obama's pandering to women.)
A business owner tells how strict equal-pay laws can hurt women more than men:
Have you ever thought that this could backfire on women? Lets take a look for a second. I own a company and need to hire a new employee. I have a man who got hired when the economy was booming and he is paid 60K for his position. Now, the economy is not so good and the supply of labor has increased, lowering the price of employees (i.e wages). Because of these equality laws, I am forbidden from hiring a woman. If I do, I will get sued when she finds out that her colleague is paid more. I could hire a man for the same job and no one would complain, but a woman is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Hence, the laws backfire on women and they do not get hired. Is it any surprise that unemployment is higher among women? Not to me. -HuffingtonPost commenter "hudi42," October 24, 2012
More at Male Matters USA: malemattersusa.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/is-there-a-war-on-women/
Besides, Obama is providing equal pay to men and women through food stamp and welfare programs.
News Flash...wealthy people got wealthy by not working 40 hour weeks. They got wealthy working 60-80 hour weeks investing savings into things that would earn them more income, not blowing every dime on non-essentials like TVs, rims, jewelry, until AFTER the wealth is earned.