Sex Bomb: Democrats Push Paycheck Fairness Act--Again

We’ve all heard the oft-cited statistic that women in the U.S. earn 77 cents for every dollar paid their male counterparts, despite the passage of laws targeted to remedy this disparity.  For the third time in four years, Congressional Democrats have introduced a bill intended to give the Equal Pay Act of 1963 sharper teeth.  Known as the Paycheck Fairness Act, the bill asserts that, “In many instances, the pay disparities can only be due to continued intentional discrimination or the lingering effects of past discrimination”—this, nearly half a century after the passage of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

How would the Paycheck Fairness Act eradicate pay discrimination when its predecessors, according to the bill’s proponents, have not?  If passed, the current version would amend the Equal Pay Act, itself an amendment of the Fair Labor Standards Act, in several ways designed to influence employer behavior.

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