Fair Pay petition
May. 9th, 2008 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vettecatReceived this via e-mail and thought it would be of general interest...
Just in time for Mother's Day, Senator John McCain opposed the Fair Pay Act — a bill that would help guarantee women equal pay for equal work. The bill simply would have restored critical anti-discrimination rules that the Supreme Court struck down in a recent decision, and failed by just three votes.
Adding insult to injury, McCain said that the solution to employment discrimination was for women to get more "education and training." Maybe that made some sense in his day, but today with women outnumbering men on college campuses, it makes none. Study after study has shown that women are paid less than men for the same work, even when they have the same education and training. Senator McCain and his Republican allies have chosen to stand in the way of enforcement of a law that's been on the books protecting women for 40 years.
Call on Senator McCain and Congress to pass the Fair Pay Act now.
Our friends at MomsRising will deliver this petition to Senator McCain with the media in tow, to make sure our message gets out. And if you're as incensed as we are by McCain's statement that women are somehow poorly educated and trained, you can do one more thing: Submit your resume when you sign the letter and we'll deliver that too, so Senator McCain can see for himself that women are actually quite educated nowadays.
Just in time for Mother's Day, Senator John McCain opposed the Fair Pay Act — a bill that would help guarantee women equal pay for equal work. The bill simply would have restored critical anti-discrimination rules that the Supreme Court struck down in a recent decision, and failed by just three votes.
Adding insult to injury, McCain said that the solution to employment discrimination was for women to get more "education and training." Maybe that made some sense in his day, but today with women outnumbering men on college campuses, it makes none. Study after study has shown that women are paid less than men for the same work, even when they have the same education and training. Senator McCain and his Republican allies have chosen to stand in the way of enforcement of a law that's been on the books protecting women for 40 years.
Call on Senator McCain and Congress to pass the Fair Pay Act now.
Our friends at MomsRising will deliver this petition to Senator McCain with the media in tow, to make sure our message gets out. And if you're as incensed as we are by McCain's statement that women are somehow poorly educated and trained, you can do one more thing: Submit your resume when you sign the letter and we'll deliver that too, so Senator McCain can see for himself that women are actually quite educated nowadays.
