Women's equal pay bill would "place unnecessary burdens on businesses"

[Dennis S]

Boo hoo. I know. You could hire some women at 77 cents on the dollar to do the extra administrative work.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/04/oba...-pay-bill/

[mattkime]

women should be at home anyway

[$tevie]

Much like the use of illegal immigrants for low pay, ending this kind of cr@p does affect our economy. I'm not defending the practice, but given the nature of business to pinch every last penny at the expense of employees in order to line their executive's pockets, it's easy to imagine lay-offs resulting at companies who "can't afford" to pay fairly. This is just another symptom of something much larger that nobody can agree on how to fix.

[Acer]

Sometimes you have to just pull the trigger and let the market find its new level.

[Pam]

Unnecessary burden. Horse hockey! What an incredibly poor, insensitive choice of words.

[freeradical]

Somehow I doubt if we can tell what this bill would do from seven sentences.

However, let's take a look at one of those sentences.

He says women now earn on average 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man.

The reasons for this are quite complex, but Obama is obviously trying to spin this for political purposes.

[$tevie]

Ya think?

[cbelt3]

The terminology is common and specific legal language to encourage the government (state, local, federal, yadda) to allow this as an 'exclusion' to rules. It's nothing more than setting up protections for future lawsuits.

The economic reality is that the earnings of those of us with more testosterone has been eroding, and will eventually drop to those of you with more estrogen. Of course this is not the goal.. the goal is 'parity' at the top, not at the bottom, C'est l'economie.

Do men earn more than women for the same work ?
Yes. Yes they do.
Is this fair ?
No. No it is not.
Is this a clear indication of the oppression of women throughout history ?
No. Merely relates back to the concept of the economic worth of a person with lower upper body strength in a subsistence farming unmechanized unindustrialized third world type environment.

[Marc Anthony]

OK! OK! Hold it!
I just want to say something.
You know, for every dollar a man makes
a woman makes 63 cents.
Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents.
So, with that kind of luck, it'll be the year
3,888 before we make
a buck.

- Laurie Anderson, "Beautiful Red Dress"

[p8712]

No. Merely relates back to the concept of the economic worth of a person with lower upper body strength in a subsistence farming unmechanized unindustrialized third world type environment.

If you think women in an unmechanized unindustrialized third world type environment don't work as hard/harder than men you're fooling yourself.