There's been plenty of discussion of misogyny throughout this election season, but most of it has focused on voters' attitudes toward Senator Clinton. Since that's necessarily subjective, let's see what objective method of measuring it there is out there.
Why, look! It's the Senate's vote on the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, taken yesterday.
This bill would essentially reverse a Supreme Court decision affirming a lower court's ruling that Ms. Ledbetter had waited too long to sue for back pay after learning she was being paid far less than her male colleagues were for doing the same work. There's more background here.
Every Republican but six voted against this (the six were Senators Arlen Specter of Pa. and Olympia Snowe of Maine and four others who face re-election battles this fall: Senators Norm Coleman of Minnesota, Susan Collins of Maine, Gordon H. Smith of Oregon and John E. Sununu of New Hampshire).
Every Democrat voted in favor (except Senator Reid, who had to switch to no at the final vote in order to retain the ability to bring the bill back up later).
Tell me again about the Republican party's respect for women.
Posted by Linkmeister at April 24, 2008 11:25 AM | TrackBackThe Republicans love the SCOTUS' Ledbetter decision not only because it encourages pay discrimination against women, it also favors employers over workers. Kind of a twofer -- reinforces the patriarchy while also bowing down to the party's corporate masters.
Posted by: Rob_in_Hawaii at April 24, 2008 10:21 PM