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Related: About this forumGOP’s clueless ploy to woo women: Accuse them of whining and lying!
Keep telling the ladies theyre wrong about equal pay, Republicans. Democrats will thank you in NovemberJOAN WALSH
If you liked GOP messaging on contraception from Rush Limbaughs attacks on Sandra Fluke to Mike Huckabee insisting women who support the ACAs contraception mandate cannot control their libidos youll love the latest Republican campaign against pay equity, newly minted for Equal Pay Day.
Fox News may be the funniest, insisting theres no such thing as pay inequity except at the White House, where an American Enterprise Institute study found women still earning less than men. From the Heritage Foundation comes this wisdom: Equal pay and minimum wage: Two ways to hurt women in the workplace. No really, thats the headline. Texas Gov. Rick Perry has called the pay gap nonsense, while Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker called it bogus. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has called equal pay the lefts latest bizarre obsession and accused Harry Reid of blowing a few kisses to advocates.
Essentially the GOP campaign against pay equity advocates comes down to telling women to stop lying.
Pay inequity means that women lose an average of more than $400,000 in wages over the course of their lifetimes. The infamous 77 cents on the dollar figure approximates the overall difference between men and women, and conservatives like to claim it compares apples and oranges: Female teachers to male congressmen, for instance. The truth is, multiple studies by the American Association of University Women and others show that the gap exists across all professions and all education levels. In some fields, its wider, in some its smaller, but its omnipresent. And its much worse for African-American and Latino women, who make 62 and 54 percent of white mens wages, respectively. (Asian American women suffer the smallest wage gap, earning 87 percent.)
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GOP’s clueless ploy to woo women: Accuse them of whining and lying! (Original Post)
DonViejo
Apr 2014
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CBHagman
(16,994 posts)1. Today the House and Senate Republicans made a point of bringing out...
...the female lawmakers at the media stakeouts. There was lots of folksy invocation of working moms, yada, yada, yada. But it's no coincidence that the Democratic caucus is more diverse. The policies determine the makeup.
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)2. Walker, Perry, McConnell......
Probably 3 of the most ignorant, racist repubicants on the face of the earth. Now what was the third branch of the government?