YOU are full of SHIT.I do not think that there is now a consistent pattern of women being paid less than men for the same work.
There used to be, of course.
That said, I still do not doubt that nationwide and icnluding all income brackets women are making something less than men.
But that can be explained, I suspect, by the fact that women still bear the brunt of domestic responsibility and for many women that means interupting their careers in favor of their families.
And if one studies incomes of professional women without families one finds that now they make more money than their males counterparts.
STill why the Republicans are refusing to sign a bill that makes compensation descrimination illegal totally mystifies me.
Probably because what the bill is designed to do is NOT to ensure that men and women doing the exact same job in the same firm are paid the same but because it tries to foist some "pay equity" on different jobs in different firms.
The bill would repeal the law that gives women the legal right to contest pay discrimination in a court of law. To date, no one has proven that what you assert has been going on since the law was in effect. Your right to take people to court is in the Constitution, you know.