senator chani baldwin is on the line with us u_s_ does consider i thank you
so much for joining us
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and uh... i understand
i it's this is equal pay day viewpoint dorky
the paycheck for
breyer fairness act uh... center ball and welcome to the program
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why don't
on ally equal pay they were trying to do raise awareness about some of the
policies that we don't need to have put in place is in order to
to close the wage gap that exists between
um... women and men in this country if clinton has played a third decades and
decades and now that women are
it merely
after work for him
are definitely huge impact on
uh... you know growing on middle-class on the eight hundred huge impact on
retirement security act
disney there's that significant and which kept that that diet
played out for a decade to print a capital template faircloth that
how do you respond to the uh... the people from for example the infant
women's forum
come on this program was some regularity and say all but do you know those women
they just
they want to have that flexibility so they can go home and have babysat that
there's a little or that's the result radar for that or because they
occasionally it leave the work place to have children and come back in
when you have recently sent their cars is going to be lower listeners
this fax don't bear those argument about it all
and what we're talking about the uh... you know league
in the sixty-three finally passed the equal pay act
where on
yaoi if if you're working drive-by side somebody with a great experience became
uh... i really dont ability for the job ya ought to be paid thank you
and i green still talking about that what was weep
been able to track
for and take a decade now
is
unequal pay for equal
uh... responsibilities and experienced on the job
um... or are you know do with them years ago we also talked about comparable pay
for comparable work
when you're looking at whole classifications of
female dominated profession to male dominated profession spec
uh... you know that i really distractions that are thrown out uh...
at work talking about getting the became compensation if you have to pay model of
experience
same level of accountability brian job
wine would be name
an organization resting tank
took put out the kind of information that
there there there's nothing to worry about women prefer you know making
seventy cents on the dollar because of the you know so-called flexibility
political
what's
what's in it for them i don't i don't get where these folks come from
and why is this even called a conservative position
not and
you and leader put myself in some of the brain that i really don't understand
stand down i think that's a pretty confident that i mean
on people have opposed the after for
years sometimes it becomes from
uh... their views of the uh... role of women in the world of the role of women
in the economy
but eat they gotta get where the other program because today as i mentioned
earlier
women are fifty present at the work force
and uh... families relied until wages and salaries of women
to make anthony
we know at that
uh... dave middle-class wages n america uh... certainly in my home state of the
content have
and back there in fact
we're losing ground
and when you have di in in what governor very aberdeen
at women get seventy-eight advent for every dollar paid to do and man
and it's been fitted in that
range for give stubbornly for
for decades uh... that's a page out of nearly well over two hundred thousand
dollars for women who's working
full-time
that significant of that money right now in texas strapped economy when families
are trying to make ends meet navy put a little tired for
retirement officials of the children to college thunder water
and you don't know dollars and they are
apparently difficult in the well-being of our families in our model car
yet not to mention the impact that will happen that woman inspires us on social
security exactly
it
are there any
markers out there that we can use any any other countries that you know i know
for example in norway that you know thirty percent of parliament is
pheno by law i believe
uh... a large number of women very politically active and iceland we did
our show from there for a week
uh... i don't know if it's the consequence of of the uh... uh... a
mandate arrive it what uh... degree where's your quote quote of some sort
just that that's historically been a maitre lineal
society
or matriarchal more of a major society
somewhat somewhat less than us anyway
and or more so than
uh... are there other examples out there that we should be looking at
but the past certainly been leaders in the private sector in the public's
factor
armies in his ear it'd painkiller we've got a question because
actually the purpose
public parking issue i've ever worked on at the newly minted college graduate not
what i i've been a tag dot dot dot uh... position and come with a couple looking
at the issue of comparable work
but you can't actually
i'd bloody your workforce and study and compare
certain job complication and
on empty and push forward power these to i mandate and get mad equity
now we don't necessarily expect that all private sector
uneducated do that but what the uh... at paychex fairness akta
if it leads you get individuals who might be injured by
discriminatory paid scheme do have the tools to fight back and that's really
and employers as what we're looking at right now you know below a lot better
law but the first step in this is the companion pap
collectively numbers around this is just
shirley from recollection minutes at probably at these two year old but my
recollection is that the have reach
of an intact with white family in the united states is in the seventies or
eighty thousand dollars
that the average net worth of the named act
african-american family united states is in the neighborhood of around five
thousand dollars
at the average net worth of a white woman single white woman in the
workforce in the united states is under two thousand dollars and of a
women of color
is actually net negative
do whether those it numbers are accurate to the dollar
uh... i'm puttin pretty sure that spread is just pretty real
anna reflects in some ways to the social capitalist this this you know women
they could not even vote in the united states and and so you know ninety years
ago
and and were
pretty much the property their husbands into a hundred years ago
uh... african-americans were
or where the property of whites and until slightly before that
what do we do about that and what are your thoughts on those and and and how
and and and how do we
also bring
women of color into this conversation
i don't think they're great questions and let me
we did that a couple of things on i'd been
studying attention to dig fairly deeply into
not lifting that word of
we've gone through the families of their demographic background but on
uh... eighty ee eligaya the average family uh... wage or wire-guided annual
tally and visited the fugitive by memory
comport very
uh... called breaking the what i've just been looking at
in terms of the annual um... ag different with and
antique dealer is nothing we have to be
they're concerned about
what i would point to ally
is on to for example abdic one of the biggest that maybe they could fit in the
state of wisconsin
and i'm andy that city of milwaukee e
formally adherents in our industrial that a lot of manufacturing aren't job i
had that created and five rent and how many black middle class
in the years after world war two
on
and uh... a and then as so many of those manufacturing jobs were off shorted
uh... and uh... it you know that that that most we had to be higher that were
the first to be laid off
and so you fly uh... uh... crippling effect internal um... milwaukee
neighborhood gone
and likewise the women didn't start joining the work force in huge numbers
and kill
event seventies and eighties if you look at it
women joining
the workforce is the story of why is the middle class didn't start contracting a
decade or two earlier
uh... but again when you have on
and a huge uh... the you know recessionary uh... uh... impacts like
we've just had
on yes
female you know the female workforce visit some of them are recently hired in
terms of pick you know jobs where you have long
i came here
uh... again there's uh... the individual who might be the first to be let go
and and and i think it you know it it's very it's a lot that is a whether it's a
bit
might distant underpinnings of discrimination
in our country and in relation to history
or more recent one so they're more pleasant hound
they compound that the impact of rap economic karen we have a lot of about a
half a minute left turn sign
turning the clock here
what's solutions
do you suggest
well under very specific issue
uh... on
equal pay for equal work
uh... idea i'm using this data highlight feet uh... tightly to pass a paycheck
fairness act
family to but there's no doubt that weekend for a there's a lot of
strategies they've that faith and that is also waged three manufacturing factor
making things in america again
we had a lot of strategy that we have to be are pushing for probably was singing
mice on senator kennedy altman
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