disparity, and this study we talked about shows the gender gap narrows. 93% for women under 35. but 84% for women of all ages. in other words, 84 cents on a dollar. is that a sign that it s going to be a matter of time before we catch up? is there any way to make that faster? well, the good news is that the gap is narrowing for young women. the bad news is that maternal status or motherhood is a greater predictor of wage discrimination right now than gender. if you decide to have babies, that s going to hurt you economically? it s going to very much hurt you economically. what people don t talk about, 81% of women in america have children by the time they re 44 years old. so when we see that u.s. census number that women make 77 cents to a man s dollar for full-time work what we re looking at is the motherhood gap pulling down the overall average. we see that over and over again. there have been some signs recently that things may be
policies he didn t admit it, make, to even spin this as a but that was the cause. we have a terrible crisis. we need you to help. victory, or do you think they re such believers it won t even he instructed nancy pelosi and matter. i think they will say it s a real victory for them because in me to be cooperative. bipartisan died on january 21st, spite of this bump in the road they are the ones who set the 2009 when obama took over. i think they resent the fact, country on the right track and first of all that he s a they ll come back and do it in democrat. february. they need to understand this is secondly, they resent our not an electable pla ablable pl. successes. you know, in 2009 and 10 when we had a democratic house and they ll have to lose again to i think that s right. senate, we put forth thing, we they ll have to lose the house got health care, we strengthened to hit rock bottom. abbey huntsman and richard the remedies for people wolf, thank you for your time suffer
anything that they re doing moving forward. joy, one of the problems is some people hearing that individual would say she s young, she s not a major player in the party. but i was looking at some of the things that major players in the party have come out with. saxby chambliss, a senator. do you remember during that hearing on sexual assault in the military, he said that happens because of the levels of hormones in men. we had senator jeff sessions saying rape happens because that culture is in his way is a sexual activity. marsha blackburn saying women don t want legislation to stop wage discrimination. right. i mean, these are all anti-women, these sentiments. it s kind of fascinating in a sense that the republican party in a sense is the party of repeal. what they mainly want to repeal is the 20th century, because they feel that the reforms from the new deal on through roe v. wade are what s wrong with america. and i think this notion of women
beautiful. let s cut money and contraception. this week, rick perry vetoed a bill to prevent wage discrimination. the bill would have brought texas law in line with the lilly led better act passed by president obama and congress in 2009. joan, what is rick perry trying to prove here? he is a throw back and he cares more about the rights of business than the rights of women. this law is necessary. it made it possible to use state courts and not always have to go the federal bench for recourse. it is a popular piece of legislation. it is passing in most other states but rick perry is delusional. still thinks he could possibly run for president again or be president some day and he thinks this is what business wants and therefore it doesn t matter what women want. business comes before women in their political calculus. and on this go ahead. i was going to say and rick
signed the equal pay act into law. the purpose to make wage discrimination based on gender illegal. since that time, knock disparity has narrowed from 59 cents to the dollar to a still alarming 77 cents. in fact, the president today cited recent research on the growing number of bread winner moms to explain why there is so much more left to do. that s not something to panic about or to be afraid about. that s a sign of the progress and strides that we ve made but what it does mean is that when more women are bringing home the bacon, had he shouldn t just be getting a little bit of bacon. and joining us now is democratic congresswoman sheila jackson lee of texas. good afternoon, ma am. martin, good afternoon. i m glad to be with you this afternoon. thank you for joining us. we know the number, 77 cents to