By: Rich Polley
Last Fall Glenn Grothman, State Senator
of Wisconsin, brought forth a bill to repeal the Equal Pay Enforcement Act. On
April 8, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed legislation that repeals the states
Equal Pay Enforcement Act.
Former Dane County executive
Kathleen Falk told the Huffington Post, Walker has "turned back the clock
for women across Wisconsin." Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett's campaign said
Walker's "ideological civil war includes a war on women, and repeal today
of this protection against pay discrimination is a major step backwards for
Wisconsin values and basic fairness."
Equal Pay Enforcement Act, a 2009
bill, offered legal repercussions for employees/victims discriminated against based
on gender, race, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation or other
factors.
Grothman stated that companies are
bombarded with false accusations; the Daily Beast also reported that Grothman doesn’t
believe in the gender wage gap. He thinks it all a myth.
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"A 2007 study by the American Association of University Women found that college-educated women earn only 80 percent as much as similarly educated men a year after graduation. Part of that is attributable to differences in life choices and family circumstances, but not all. 'After accounting for college major, occupation, industry, sector, hours worked, workplace flexibility, experience, educational attainment, enrollment status, GPA, institution selectivity, age, race/ethnicity, region, marital status, and number of children, a 5 percent difference in the earnings of male and female college graduates one year after graduation was still unexplained,' it said. After 10 years in the workforce, there’s an unexplained 12 percent gap." wrote Michelle Goldberg from the Daily Beast.
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