The President said he’d fight for middle-class people like me, and he kept his promise

[JustAnotherGen]

34. I would agree bigtree

And I am HEARING what the poster is saying but . . . Jobs first in Tandem with a Paycheck Fairness Act.

Imagine you are a gay couple - two black women - married and TRYING to obtain the American dream, raise a family in a food, shelter, medical secure environment. You work in let's say - a wireless carrier's headquarters in Open Development. You know a gay Caucasian male couple in the Marketing Communications Department.

You - the black female couple are only making .61$ for every dollar the two men make. The sexual orientation of the two men is not up for consideration and neither is that of the two women. Simple their gender is in play.

Now if it is two latina/hispanic women they are making $.52 on the dollar.

Caucasian women - $.77 on the dollar.

I'm not 100% certain as the military is shrouded in mystery - but take them out of that telecom environment and put any of these four couples in the military. Those women can serve openly, but because of their gender, they serve at less pay.

Now look at our economy . . . Imagine in January 2013 we have this President, and majorities in the House and Senate who can get an intensive infrastructure development bill passed. We need this. We do. The pay law passed in the early 1960's STILL did not catch women up with men. It's been almost 40 years - and we are still left behind. Any wages paid need to be paid fairly at these Team America jobs. If you are a government contractor - and you aren't paying a fair and equal wage - you should eligible for punishment.

We can't wait anymore - straight women or gay women. We are attending university and obtaining advanced degrees at record levels. We are delaying marriage and children (I'm a perfect example of this - getting married in April at 39) in order to pay off our debts/student loans, advance in our careers by being able to move at the drop of a hat (no need to worry about husband and children), and staying late at work so our male counterparts can go coach their daughters soccer team. Enough! We've paid our dues for team America and I don't want it pushed aside anymore.

I am familiar with unequal pay. I've felt it's sting directly - when I was hired onto a team and had to deal with an insubordinate male who could not take direction or instruction for a woman he felt was beneath him (part of that was cultural) but who ran with The Boys Club. He made 11k more a year than me with less education AND marketing experienve (previous positions all in IT) rolled in at 9:15 AM, left at 4:45 but was the fair haired boy.

By the way - I'm a black (bi-racial) woman and my company gets accolades for being a great place to work for women, blacks, working mothers, etc etc. Understand how bad my situation looks?

I'm not the only one. Because this shit spreads like wildfire there. All we need is a law that allows me to share what I know about that gay male couple that I am friends with - and the 14 women at my company who have approached me- without getting them fired. I need to be able to show that org chart AND my former employees HR Profile without fear of retaliation. Those 14 other women have documentation too.


I'm not asking for homosexuals to wait - not for a thing. I'm asking them to think of the gay women that will not be able to prosper at the rate a gay male couple will. . . Just because those two women had the misfortune to be born women.


We've waited too. And there is no point in two women getting married and having a family if they work so damn hard to provide - but never get paid what they are worth. . . So life is a constant economic struggle.

Now ask me how I feel about the book/movie The Help. they are a heckava group of "girls" but no one wants the ugly truth about why they had to take those jobs in the first place!