Wow, I worked for over 40 years in this Country and even at my best pay, which was pretty good, I never got equal pay with men doing the same job. Even with good raises, could never make up the entire difference.
No Iceland is not the first, the US did his about 50 years ago. Good thing he’s not in government so he wouldn’t know about The Equal Pay Act of 1963... oh wait.https://twitter.com/sensanders/status/948687176971227138 …
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I was once told I wasn’t getting the same raise as my male counterpart whose performance deficiencies were noteworthy because he has two children to put through college. Seriously. At the Director level.
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That was the standard line. Also, within salary ranges, men always started at the higher end.
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Why didn't you go after your employers for discrimination?
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HR is to protect the company not the employee. Learned that the hard way after I was sexually assaulted
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Even sexual harassment was worse & out in the open!
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Ah, Junior, key word "illegal". Iceland is the first country to make it illegal, therefore a crime to pay men a higher wage than woman for same job or vice versa. Oh, I get it, you think you are above the law which is why your Russia meeting, to you, is a nothing burger.
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Yet we still don’t pay men and women an equal wage in the US.
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We don't?
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This is literally irrelevant. Doesn’t take in to account how many hours more or the different kind of jobs men and women take on.
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"State Median Annual Earnings and Earning Ratio for Full-Time, Year-Round Workers" Though I know being told by wingnut media for 20yrs that a forceful attitude makes facts disappear sounded really fun & easy, it doesn't actually work.
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Median means the middle number for the demographics measured... So if men worked two overtime hours (still a full time job) more than women on average, their median income would be higher than the women's. Doesn't mean they didn't have the same hourly wage.
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It's interesting how you feel arbitrarily inventing factors that would skew this actually skews it...or that the cost of living is different for women & men in any given state. Adding made up factors to disprove a study of course doesn't actually undermine the study.
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Sorry, that wasn't you on cost of living...& I see he was making a different point. Reading on the fly here.
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