Yep it has...and I am a woman. Never was on their bandwagon and never will be. The idea of equal pay is good though..but based on preformance not because you're just doing the same job. I am a performance type individual when it comes to the workplace...believe employeers should not have to be "fair" the way it's being played out today. If you're not doing the job the other guy is doing in meeting expectations ...well then learn how to or your done and need to find something else more suited.
Exactly! I remember back in the '70s every TV show pushed "women's lib." I recall an episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show where she asked her boss for a raise and he said no. Mary pointed out that a male coworker did the same job she did and got paid more, and the boss replied, "Well, that's different, he has a family to support." Back then, you could get away with paying women less on the assumption that they "didn't have a family to support." We all saw things like that on TV and thought, "How unfair." So we all became "feminists." It seemed like simple common sense back then...equal pay for equal work. But it turned into something so much bigger and uglier! When I see feminists on TV now, they only seem to care about two things...abortion and gay rights. They seem so angry and hateful, too. I don't think they speak for most women.
And I think the stats about women making less for the same work is so much hooey. A business cannot, by law, pay a woman less to do the same job.