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Originally Posted by AGDee
If women are always offered less money everywhere, then they don't really have this option, do they? Obviously places that offer women a lower starting salary are discriminatory and would rather hire the man for the higher salary if they are going to have to pay that much. Additionally, it doesn't always happen at the time of the offer. It can happen with lower annual raises. Two people could start out the same but over time, if the woman only gets a 2% raise and the man gets 5%, things get out of whack very quickly. Then corporations institute policies like Thetagirl outlined, where they threaten to fire people who share salary info and the woman doesn't really know that she's being paid much less.
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So the gov't has to mandate how much one's raise will be each year?
If a woman only asks or accepts a 2% raise and a man asks for and won't accept anything less than 5%...how is that discrimination?
Also, how does this equal pay law take into account when a woman takes a leave of absence for a pregnancy? She just took of 6mo or a year from work, from gaining experience, from actually making her company money. It is only right that when she comes back she is not making as much as a man of equal talent that did not take that time off.
Hell, the list can go on and on why this is not so much an equal wage law, but an unequal wage law in favor of women.