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Originally Posted by Coramoor
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.
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You are making far too many assumptions. Nobody said the govt would mandate how much raises should be, only that they should be equal pay for equal work.
How does a man not accept less than a 5% raise? Quit??? And feed your family how???
Who in the world takes a 6 month or a year maternity leave???? No woman I know. We take 6 weeks, 12 at most, as allowed by FMLA. If I took more than 12 weeks, I would lose my job. Does the research show that only mother's have this significant pay difference? Matter of fact, it does NOT.
Assuming that the difference in pay is due to maternity leaves and an inability to be assertive is as chauvinistic as the men who think they can get away with paying women less money only because they are women.