It’s not just that women hold different, lower-paying jobs. There is still a lot of gender inequality in some fields:
The report showed little pay inequality in fields such at architectural and engineering, business and finance, and computer and mathematical science careers.
However, in other professions such as education, healthcare, management and sales careers, the gap is between gender pay is wider.
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An honest question
How do you suggest/believe this can be fixed?
rf Thu 20 Mar 7:18 PM
probably only over a long period of time
and probably not with a state law.
However, it is important for Congress to make clear that a woman doesn’t lose her right to file a discrimination complaint related to unequal pay just because she didn’t know about the discriminatory behavior in time. As I mentioned in the other thread earlier today, the Supreme Court has held that a woman couldn’t sue for discrimination because she didn’t file her lawsuit within 180 days of the first time her employer gave her a smaller raise than her male colleagues.
Never mind that she didn’t know about the discriminatory behavior for years after that.
If a woman discovers that there has been a pattern of discrimination in her compensation relative to men doing the same job, she should be able to file a lawsuit even if her employer concealed the discrimination from her for many years.
I think someone in Congress was going to amend federal law to make this very clear in the statute, so that the Supreme Court would have to acknowledge that the legislative intent was to allow women to seek remedy after finding out about discrimination on the job.
desmoinesdem Thu 20 Mar 7:49 PM