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Minnesota Fair Pay Repeal: Fiscal Responsibility in Sheep's Clothing
By Joanne Bamberger - Politics DailyI've decided I must be living in an alternate universe these days. There's more snow and ice than I've seen in pretty much my whole life, even after growing up in Central Pennsylvania and working for years in notoriously wintry Upstate New York. Parenting critics seem to agree that it's horrible to force feed hot sauce as a form of child discipline, but that it's acceptable parenting to deny water and bathroom breaks for less-than-perfect piano lessons. And now Minnesota, the first state ever to pass an equal pay for equal work law for public employees, may be on the verge of repealing ...
At U.S. Supreme Court, Christmas Comes Early for Wal-Mart
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyWith just 18 days shopping days left until Christmas, the U.S. Supreme Court gave the retail giant Wal-Mart a wonderful holiday gift on Monday: the justices agreed to hear the company's appeal of a ruling that had permitted a massive class action employee discrimination lawsuit against it to proceed to trial. And, better yet, it's a gift that almost certainly will keep on giving. Not only did the Supreme Court action delay the case and thus improve Wal-Mart's bargaining position against its litigation opponents, there is every reason to believe that the court's conservative majority, ...
Norma Rae in the U.K.
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyFor those needing a reminder about the power of female solidarity and the significance of organized labor, "Made in Dagenham" tells the story of a women's labor strike at a Ford Motor plant in the United Kingdom in 1968. It's a feel-good feminist movie with women uniting across class lines and British Employment Secretary Barbara Castle, the only woman in Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Cabinet, defiantly backing the strikers to win them near-parity with men's wages and two years later the Equal Pay Act of 1970. There were only 187 women in the work force of 55,000, and it was the first time ...
Obama's Appointees Mainly Clinton's, Mostly Male
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyWriting in the Washington Post, Al Kamen takes a look at President Barack Obama's political appointees and sees a lot of familiar faces. Forty-two percent of Obama's appointees previously served in the Clinton Administration. President Obama is also showing a preference or elite university educated civil servants and former professors. For example, one in four of his appointees either graduated or taught at Harvard, the president's alma mater. Perhaps more interesting, however, and perhaps a source of trouble for the Administration, is the gender ratio of Obama's selections: men outnumber ...
McCain Pays Female Staffers Better Than Obama
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyDuring the Democratic Convention in Denver last month, many of the speakers made calls for equal pay for women. Sen. Barack Obama himself mentioned equal pay in his acceptance speech, and has made the call for pay equity a staple of his stump speech. But Obama's rhetoric does not match his deeds when it comes to female staffers in his his Senate office. According to the non-partisan LegiStorm watchdog group, female employees in Obama's office make on average just 83 cents for every dollar that a male staffer makes.Obama's 28 male staffers divided among themselves total payroll expenditures of ...
Does McCain Have a Problem With Women?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyAccording to blogger and radio host Taylor Marsh, the answer is pretty clear. Monday's incident, in which John McCain volunteered his wife for a topless beauty contest at the Sturgis, South Dakota biker bash, is but one more instance of what Marsh sees as a pattern of sexist behavior from the Arizona Senator:Hello, all of you anti Obama zealots, got misogyny? That's your man, John McCain, a where's Pakistan?, Sunni or Shia - who cares?, bomb-bomb-bomb Iran, Take my wife topless please, kind of guy. You can add McCain offering up his wife for a topless contest to what John McCain once said ...
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