For the same work, dudes get paid more.
Hillary Clinton wants to push for equal pay and for paid family leave and for better and cheaper childcare.
We need to roll back precarious employment models. Temporary and limited contracts were initially seen as a way of introducing more flexibility so as to bridge periods of need in certain phases of production. Some employers have taken advantage of the model to push down wages. In general, we must strive for equal pay for equal work.
9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer.
There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.
What we need to do is raise the minimum wage. We also need to hold onto equal pay. Women work for 76 cents on the dollar for the same work that men do. That's not right in America.
Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.
[Donald Trump ] who has said women don't deserve equal pay unless they do as good a job as men.
Let's finally guarantee equal pay for women.
I believe in raising the minimum wage and equal pay for work.
I sure do want to make sure women get equal pay for the work we do.
Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an economic value, at least at replacement level, that's crucial. So change does come from the bottom up, and it will come from girls and women and men who understand that for us all to be human beings instead of being grouped by gender is good for them, too.
I don't remember being thought of as good-looking until I became a feminist. It's more of a comment on people's expectations than of what a feminist would look like. They assumed that if you could get a man, you wouldn't want anything else - what else could you possibly want? So that feminists who were talking about such things as equal pay must be doing so because they were unable to get a husband to support them, and therefore they must be ugl - this was the sort of train of thought. So because I looked different from the stereotype, then people would comment.
In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to chew gum in class - I wrote about why women should receive equal pay.
If you just sort of say, everyone gets equal pay, you get away from the whole American dream, you get away from capitalism in a sense.
During her Oscar acceptance speech, Patricia Arquette called for equal pay for women. Then Oprah stood up and said, 'She's right, I can't live like this. I can't take another second of this living hell.'
Republicans absolutely support equal pay for equal work.
[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.
Women can't wait for equal pay. And I won't stop fighting to address this inequality.
