Paycheck Fairness Act

[myotch]

I was raised by a single mom, a widow. The company she worked part time with hired her on full time, and really treated her and our family really, really well. But I also know she fought to get everything she got. Different time, I know, but some men in her office, perhaps even some of the customers, worked to get her fired, take her management position away and put her under male management.

She had to be a feminist in a day when feminism was preached against in the pulpit, and was somewhat regionally unpopular.

She did her job outstandingly well. She even took on responsibilities where she had a severe weakness - she was one of the first women to take computer classes in Atlanta - computers of the punchboard variety. Today, try to tell her the relationship between a mouse and a cursor and she gets so frustrated she just quits trying to understand it. But there she was, shoulder to shoulder with men, often face-to-face with misogynistic enemies.

I'm a big fan of equal-pay-for-equal-work, and I have little patience for those who think otherwise.