The question to Donald Trump was what would you do– and his response was what Ivanka would do– it was Ivanka’s ‘job,’ its her problem, she needs to handle it. That is exactly why sexual harrament is such a huge problem in the workplace.
The United States hit a milestone moment last month when Hillary Clinton became the first woman to win a major political party’s presidential nomination.
That’s important progress. It’s also not nearly enough.
Seven years ago, President Obama signed into law his first piece of legislation. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act that undid the damage of a 2007 Supreme Court decision that made it nearly impossible for women to enforce the Equal Pay Act against employers who paid them less than their male counterparts.
Author Caitlin Moscatello writes for Glamour: “Women without children in Ireland earn roughly 17 percent more than men, and childless women in Australia, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands earn slightly more than [male] workers. Those numbers drop dramatically, however, when women have kids; working moms make more than 10 percent less than men across the board.”
Terry O’Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, noted that Democrats are leading the policy fight for legislation that would bar employers from refusing to accommodate pregnancies. “It’s completely in my view outrageous that the Democratic caucus wouldn’t make an accommodation for Tammy Duckworth,” O’Neill told BuzzFeed News. “That is an issue of public Read more …