Ledbetter law should not have a one year limit. Much needs to be done.

I worked in a company where out of necessity many of us needed to know pay rates in order to write bid proposals. The company made the bold move of just having everyone have access to it. This was a largish company with pay ranging from just above minimum wage to over $100/hr.

It's the place where people groused THE LEAST about what they made vs. other people. The bright shining light on the pay range for people in the same job category meant that management had to justify differences.

Now the company did have confidential management bonuses and may have been shortchanging women that way, but most employees didn't qualify for those bonuses.

unexplainable discrepcies in pay came creeping back. Too many people argue no wage gap exists now only because it is so difficult to prove. It was proven to exist, just not in the private sector salary jobs, because we don't have the info.

we should leave such an atrocity "alone."

This poll is an insult to the intelligence of any Democratic party supporter.

and furthermore, this poll helps show them that no matter how much of a nuisance they can be in Civil Rights posts, they represent almost nobody here.

they take a yes no position but only have the guts to defend it via passive aggressive or concern troll posts.

so much funny in that statement, I can't even deconstruct it to make a joke about it.

Women are paid less when during their working years and have more difficulty saving for retirement. They also tend to live longer than men.

Another way of saying it is that women earn less, can save less and then need more in retirement because they live longer than men.

If a woman's husband earns a high salary that is no problem.

But today, many elderly women are alone, struggling on Social Security that is lower than that of a man of her age would likely be.

The government steps in and provides Medicaid, food stamps and other welfare kinds of payments.

Thus, it is really the taxpayers who end up covering the difference between the pay women earn and the higher pay that men earn.

In addition to equal pay, working women who have children need fully paid family leave -- mandatory paid family leave.

When we lived in Europe, in addition to paid maternity leave, families received a supplement to their income to cover a few basic costs for each child. When we moved back to the US and planned to stay here, we had to pay that money back, the money we received for each child. That is called "Kindergeld" in German. It is an investment that the nation makes in each child. When my children were infants, I figured it about paid for the diapers, so it wasn't a lot of money, but it helped. It recognized the fact that we are all in this together. Other people's mothers and other people's children are important to us when we consider the quality of our own lives.

but would like an example of which one.

you know, because we all know how serious you are.

then the median salary for female White House staff members would be equal to the median salary for male White House staff members.

so i hope you aren't making this argument frivolously.

you own it.

Your solution is extremely simple and could have been implemented years ago. I think many politicians don't actually want to solve problems. I think they want to take small steps, but want the problem to persist. That way, they continue to have an issue to bring up and they can point to the small steps and continue to drum up support at the polls to attain their REAL goals...re-election, continued power and, above all else, money.

is open access to pay info within an organization

Because to any extent we are seeing movement, it seems like that is the way it is playing out.

We desperately need wage trends to move up.