Obama Calls For Equal Pay For Women: 'This Isn't 1958'

Obama Calls For Equal Pay For Women: 'This Isn't 1958'

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted: 03/21/2014 11:59 am EDT
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BY Nedra Pickler, The Associated Press

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - "Amid grappling with crisis in Ukraine, President Barack Obama made a pitch for women's pocketbook issues Thursday, calling for legislation requiring equal pay for equal work and saying Congress would get more done if it had more women.

"Women with college degrees may earn hundreds of thousands of dollars less over the course of her career than a man at the same educational level, and that’s wrong." Obama said. "This isn’t 1958 - it’s 2014.”

He continued, "A woman deserves work place policies that protect her right to have a baby without losing her job. It’s pretty clear that, you know, if men were having babies, we'd have different policies."

Florida has one of the country's most competitive gubernatorial races with incumbent Republican Gov. Rick Scott facing Democratic former Gov. Charlie Crist. Crist did not appear publicly with Obama and planned to see him at a private fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee. It's well known that the president and Gov. Crist are personal friends.

The DNC fundraiser was one of two the president was headlining Thursday evening in Miami with tickets costing up to $32,400. The other, at the home of former Miami Heat star Alonzo Mourning, benefits the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. About 75 people are expected to attend that reception and dinner, versus around 25 supporters attending the earlier DNC roundtable discussion at the home of Univision Spanish television host Lili Estefan.

Crist, a former Republican, has been effusive in his praise of Obama and embraced Obama's health care program, which Scott and the GOP have been using against him. Health care also has been a touchy issue for Scott, who favored expanding Medicaid last year but dropped it after the GOP-controlled legislature shot it down.

Obama's Valencia College event was the first in a series of regional forums planned in the lead-up to a Working Families Summit he's hosting in Washington on June 23. Others, which will be headlined by various administration officials, were being planned for Denver on April 11, Chicago on April 28, San Francisco on May 5, and for Boston and New York on dates to be announced.

White House aides say turning out female voters, particularly single women, will be a key to Democratic performance in November so Obama is putting extra emphasis on financial challenges facing that demographic, including equal pay.

Averaging exit poll results for House elections from 1976 through 2012, women are slightly less apt to vote Democratic in off-year elections than they are in presidential ones. In House votes in non-presidential election years, women average 52 percent support for Democrats; in presidential years, it's 54 percent. Among men, there is no such shift, with 48 percent average support for Democrats in both types of elections."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/20/obama-women-equal-pay_n_5002280.html
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IMO: The 2014 and 2016 elections offer great possible impetus for every American woman as so much harmful legislation has been centered upon women and our ability to have children or not. This has been the center of the republican attempt to legislatively rule women's lives to bring us back physically and emotionally back to the 50's where women were quietly used as chattel in bearing children and fed false ideas on what our duties were toward child-bearing, careers, and what extent men will play in our lives..

As President Obama says: "This isn't the 50's" and today's women attend more colleges, have careers that rival men's and the last bastion for men is keeping women's salaries lower than men's salaries because of the power structure of the business world. There is still the antiquated thoughts of: "Well, women have babies and will leave work" - "Women are apt to leave the workplace for caring for the home and children" that do not adequately pose the life of married women with children who are still in the workplace thru necessity or personal wishes. Women will stay or leave a position for the same reasons men do.

It is amazing that in the 2014's, females have still not been claimed ouir 'equality' by ratification by the states, do not earn the same salaries as males for doing the same jobs, and are the first to be terminated for workplace romances as though the fault is hers alone, and are reluctantly given promotions and raises by biased bosses.

Extreme bias toward women is still being exhibited by males in the workplaces of America, in our armed services, in the courts, and in Congress. It is time for women to vote for a Democratic woman if we want anything constructive toward women to happen in Congress.

Men have been acutely aware of their own personal weaknesses and of women's eternal strengths, and it is more than time for women to rise out of the notoriety and propaganda, into the sunshine of complete equality as is her true innermost feelings concerning our worth to this nation and to the world.

 

How much does Obama pay the women in the White House?

 

Meanwhile, 60% of the nation’s wealth is controlled by women.

 

Hence your debt

 

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/20/obama-pushes-close-pay-gender-gap/#ixzz2wjPolr66


Maybe before preaching about Republicans, The Op, and Obama should look at the White House first.

Pure propaganda.

 

Which, in all fairness and accuracy, does not take into account what jobs these people are doing.

 

Obama is more or less a one trick pony so he just recycles the same talking point, i.e., [black, women, Mexicans, homosexuals, eskimos, young people, old people, muslims, native Americans, etc.] have been discriminated against, been discriminated against, been discriminated against, bla, bla, bla. Liberals listen and say things like "I have a thrill running down my leg", or "he's so articulate" which is a code phrase meaning he does not speak in Ebonics (that is when using a teleprompter).

 

I pay my truck driver $17 an hour. I pay my receptionist $14 an hour. I pay the truck driver more because the occupation is a bit more hazardous and requires a very timely schedule, plus loading/unloading the truck, shipping & receiving knowledge, warehouse experience, etc. I pay the receptionist $14 an hour because...well, she's a receptionist; I told her during her job interview that if she knew how to answer a telephone, that she was already overqualified.

 

Does Obama and the huffington post take that into account ?

 

So you are saying the female staff members are unable to do as good a job as the males and therefore should be paid less?

 

Which means what? Obama does not put women into positions of authority (by and large)? We already knew that.

 

Equal Pay Act of 1963

The Equal Pay Act of 1963 is a United States federal law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (see Gender pay gap). It was signed into law on June 10, 1963 by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program.[1] In passing the bill, Congress stated that sex discrimination:[2]
depresses wages and living standards for employees necessary for their health and efficiency;
prevents the maximum utilization of the available labor resources
tends to cause labor disputes, thereby burdening, affecting, and obstructing commerce;
burdens commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce; and
constitutes an unfair method of competition.

The law provides (in part) that:
No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section [section 206 of title 29 of the United States Code] shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work on jobs[,] the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions, except where such payment is made pursuant to (i) a seniority system; (ii) a merit system; (iii) a system which measures earnings by quantity or quality of production; or (iv) a differential based on any other factor other than sex [ . . . . ] [2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Pay_Act_of_1963

 

Obama doesn't pay women as much in the White House because he's really not interested in them.

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This is like many other laws we have on the books, like gun laws and illegal immigration. We have the laws, we just don't enforce them. This is a ploy by the Democrats to make it seem like they only care about women.

 

Who can compete with Reggie Love for Obama's attention?

At any rate, women feel slighted and underappreciated at the White House.http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...-and-ignored/2011/09/16/gIQAAOSSXK_story.html

 

Exactly correct. He reminds me of a broken record. He cycles through talking points at certain times to flare up his supporters as if he really cares about equal pay for women. This coming from the guy who is taking lavish exotic vacations on the very tax dollars women who aren't getting paid enough had to give him for it. Freakn filthy hypocrite.

 

LOL. I'm going to hell.

 

And you know why i roll my eyes when obama says women are paid less

 

No, but I do believe that qualifies as a strawman.

 

The thing is, he is saying we need to make a law to pay women more to make them equal with men when that law is already on the books and he knows it. He will do and say anything to try and win votes.

 

It is a strawman, but why are women in the White House paid less?

 

I guess the Lilly Ledbetter Act is just another law Obama doesn't want to enforce, as it was the very first law he signed way back in 2009... What is Congress supposed to do, write it again and send to again?

 

I guess Barry didn't get his own memo.

 

In the Women's Rights Forum in the thread "The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap " the righties contend either there is NO pay gap, or it's all women's fault for having babies or women took the wrong courses in school.... ....

But here , they're all over Obama because of a perceived pay gap which they would approve of if a Repub was in office....it just gets so confusing

 

What Obamas complaint? Exactly. Tell your leftist friends to drop the propaganda and lies.